Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6A.C. Armstrong, 1860 |
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Page 160
... Voltaire . " A man who has never seen the sun , " says Calderon , in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be ... Voltaire's , Such high and various excellence moved the young prince almost to adoration . The opinions of Voltaire on ...
... Voltaire . " A man who has never seen the sun , " says Calderon , in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be ... Voltaire's , Such high and various excellence moved the young prince almost to adoration . The opinions of Voltaire on ...
Page 161
... Voltaire replied with exquisite grace and address . A correspondence followed , which may be studied with advantage by those who wish to become proficients in the ignoble art of flattery . No man ever paid compliments better than Voltaire ...
... Voltaire replied with exquisite grace and address . A correspondence followed , which may be studied with advantage by those who wish to become proficients in the ignoble art of flattery . No man ever paid compliments better than Voltaire ...
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... of two great treasons : perhaps he might be induced to commit a third . The Duchess of Chateauroux then held the thief influence over the feeble Lewis . She determined to send an agent to Berlin ; and Voltaire was FREDERIC THE GREAT . 175.
... of two great treasons : perhaps he might be induced to commit a third . The Duchess of Chateauroux then held the thief influence over the feeble Lewis . She determined to send an agent to Berlin ; and Voltaire was FREDERIC THE GREAT . 175.
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... Voltaire was selected for the mission . He eagerly undertook the task ; for , while his literary fame filled all Europe , he was troub- led with a childish craving for political distinction . He was vain , and not without reason , of ...
... Voltaire was selected for the mission . He eagerly undertook the task ; for , while his literary fame filled all Europe , he was troub- led with a childish craving for political distinction . He was vain , and not without reason , of ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Edwin Percy Whipple. But what the influence of Voltaire could not effect , the rapid progress of the Austrian arms effected . If it should be in the power of Maria Theresa and George the Second to ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Edwin Percy Whipple. But what the influence of Voltaire could not effect , the rapid progress of the Austrian arms effected . If it should be in the power of Maria Theresa and George the Second to ...
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Page 128 - House of Parliament, whose trust he has "betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all ! " When the deep murmnr of various emotions had subsided,...
Page 124 - ... had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Page 374 - Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Page 125 - ... made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual...
Page 128 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 124 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 123 - Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 356 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Page 144 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Page 17 - The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble, even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds.