Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6A.C. Armstrong, 1860 |
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... letters on the same bench with the sons of the peasantry ; nor did any thing in his garb or fare indicate that his life was to take a widely different course from that of the young rustics with whom he studied and played . But no cloud ...
... letters on the same bench with the sons of the peasantry ; nor did any thing in his garb or fare indicate that his life was to take a widely different course from that of the young rustics with whom he studied and played . But no cloud ...
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... letters on the walls of the dormitory still attests his victory over many older competitors . He stayed two years longer at the school , and was looking forward to a studentship at Christ Church , when an event happened which changed ...
... letters on the walls of the dormitory still attests his victory over many older competitors . He stayed two years longer at the school , and was looking forward to a studentship at Christ Church , when an event happened which changed ...
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... letters occupied a great part of his time . It is to be remembered to his honour that , in days when the languages of the East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money ...
... letters occupied a great part of his time . It is to be remembered to his honour that , in days when the languages of the East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money ...
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... letters . The argument from inferiority , at all events , is one which may be urged with at least equal force against every claimant that has ever been mentioned , with the single exception of Burke ; and it would be a waste of time to ...
... letters . The argument from inferiority , at all events , is one which may be urged with at least equal force against every claimant that has ever been mentioned , with the single exception of Burke ; and it would be a waste of time to ...
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... letters which , under various signatures , are known to have been written by Junius , and from his dealings with Woodfal ! and others , to form a tolerably correct notion of his character . He was clearly a man not destitute of real ...
... letters which , under various signatures , are known to have been written by Junius , and from his dealings with Woodfal ! and others , to form a tolerably correct notion of his character . He was clearly a man not destitute of real ...
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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.