Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...J. Murray, 1824 |
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... never seduced , or was suspected by his professional friends of se- ducing him , for one moment , from professional duty . M. Teissiert , in his account of one of the French jurisconsults noticed in his Elôges , mentions that " he was ...
... never seduced , or was suspected by his professional friends of se- ducing him , for one moment , from professional duty . M. Teissiert , in his account of one of the French jurisconsults noticed in his Elôges , mentions that " he was ...
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... never revived , but that the supereminent merit of Homer buoyed up his strains against the overwhelming waves of time , and restored them to celebrity . This conjecture receives some countenance from the opinion generally entertained by ...
... never revived , but that the supereminent merit of Homer buoyed up his strains against the overwhelming waves of time , and restored them to celebrity . This conjecture receives some countenance from the opinion generally entertained by ...
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... an expression attributed to Dr. Johnson , if she has sometimes the contortions , she has often what Goldsmith never has , the enthusiasm of the Sybil ; and even her ordinary gait shows her divine origin * . The greatest com- C 3 21.
... an expression attributed to Dr. Johnson , if she has sometimes the contortions , she has often what Goldsmith never has , the enthusiasm of the Sybil ; and even her ordinary gait shows her divine origin * . The greatest com- C 3 21.
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... never 100l . The judges had some other perquisites , and also some remuneration from government ; but the amount of the perquisites and remuneration of any judge , ex- cepting those of the presidents , amounted to little more than the ...
... never 100l . The judges had some other perquisites , and also some remuneration from government ; but the amount of the perquisites and remuneration of any judge , ex- cepting those of the presidents , amounted to little more than the ...
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... never carried so far as in the decisions upon the Annuity Act of 1777 : it was construed by Lord Kenyon with severity , by his successors with laxity , almost entirely abrogated by a new act : -and this new act lately became the subject ...
... never carried so far as in the decisions upon the Annuity Act of 1777 : it was construed by Lord Kenyon with severity , by his successors with laxity , almost entirely abrogated by a new act : -and this new act lately became the subject ...
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Page 151 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Page 148 - I CANNOT, my Lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 196 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 149 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Page 386 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 85 - Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Page 89 - But while I expected, in this daring flight, his final ruin and fall, behold him rising still higher, and coming down souse upon both Houses of Parliament. Yes, he did make you his quarry, and you still bleed from the wounds of his talons. You crouched, and still crouch, beneath his rage. Nor has he dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces,'...
Page 196 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival. who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add...
Page 26 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...