Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...J. Murray, 1824 |
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... occasion , on which any pro- duction of his pen will solicit the attention of the public , he avails himself of it to mention THE TITLES OF ALL HIS WORKS , and to state succinctly some circumstances and observations , which the present ...
... occasion , on which any pro- duction of his pen will solicit the attention of the public , he avails himself of it to mention THE TITLES OF ALL HIS WORKS , and to state succinctly some circumstances and observations , which the present ...
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... occasions too noisy . The salutary and incontrovertible truth , that one Englishman can , any day , beat two Frenchmen , was as firmly believed , and as ably demonstrated at Douay and St. Omer's , as it could be at Eton or Winchester ...
... occasions too noisy . The salutary and incontrovertible truth , that one Englishman can , any day , beat two Frenchmen , was as firmly believed , and as ably demonstrated at Douay and St. Omer's , as it could be at Eton or Winchester ...
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... occasion to which it is assigned . Brutus and Anthony might have uttered the very speeches , Hamlet might have pronounced the very soliloquy , Macbeth and his Lady might have held the same dialogue , and Falstaff and the Merry Wives of ...
... occasion to which it is assigned . Brutus and Anthony might have uttered the very speeches , Hamlet might have pronounced the very soliloquy , Macbeth and his Lady might have held the same dialogue , and Falstaff and the Merry Wives of ...
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... occasions , by the parties in a cause , to the judges by whom it was tried . A passage in Homer * , describing a compartment in the shield of Achilles , in which two talents of gold were placed between two judges , to be paid to the ...
... occasions , by the parties in a cause , to the judges by whom it was tried . A passage in Homer * , describing a compartment in the shield of Achilles , in which two talents of gold were placed between two judges , to be paid to the ...
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... occasions , the French parliaments interpreted the law , as it is generally done in courts of justice , by decisions on dubious points . Their interpreta- tion of it by arrêts was frequently censured , as amounting in effect to an act ...
... occasions , the French parliaments interpreted the law , as it is generally done in courts of justice , by decisions on dubious points . Their interpreta- tion of it by arrêts was frequently censured , as amounting in effect to an act ...
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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...