Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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Page 26
... talents and resolution might have been . Such princes may still be seen , the scandals of the southern thrones of Europe , princes false alike to the accomplices who have served them and to the opponents who have spared them , princes ...
... talents and resolution might have been . Such princes may still be seen , the scandals of the southern thrones of Europe , princes false alike to the accomplices who have served them and to the opponents who have spared them , princes ...
Page 35
... talents and of great virtues , but , we apprehend , infinitely too fastidious for public life . He did not perceive that , in such times as those on which his lot had fallen , the duty of a statesman is to choose the better cause and to ...
... talents and of great virtues , but , we apprehend , infinitely too fastidious for public life . He did not perceive that , in such times as those on which his lot had fallen , the duty of a statesman is to choose the better cause and to ...
Page 49
... talents of Bonaparte to those of Cromwell ; and he possessed also , what neither Cromwell nor Bonaparte possessed , learning , taste , wit , eloquence , the sentiments and the manners of an accomplished gentleman . 66 Between Cromwell ...
... talents of Bonaparte to those of Cromwell ; and he possessed also , what neither Cromwell nor Bonaparte possessed , learning , taste , wit , eloquence , the sentiments and the manners of an accomplished gentleman . 66 Between Cromwell ...
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... talents could have any unworthy reason for shrinking from military enterprise . This reproach is his highest glory . In the success of the English navy he could have no selfish interest . Its triumphs added nothing to his fame ; its ...
... talents could have any unworthy reason for shrinking from military enterprise . This reproach is his highest glory . In the success of the English navy he could have no selfish interest . Its triumphs added nothing to his fame ; its ...
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... talents . It forms a class of men , shrewd , vigilant , inventive ; of men whose dexterity triumphs over the most perplexing combinations of circumstances , whose presaging instinct no sign of the times can elude . But it is an ...
... talents . It forms a class of men , shrewd , vigilant , inventive ; of men whose dexterity triumphs over the most perplexing combinations of circumstances , whose presaging instinct no sign of the times can elude . But it is an ...
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