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... house with pie - crust battlements , to procure rare engravings and antique chimney - boards , to match odd gauntlets , to lay out a maze of walks within five acres of ground , these were the grave em- ployments of his long life . From ...
... house with pie - crust battlements , to procure rare engravings and antique chimney - boards , to match odd gauntlets , to lay out a maze of walks within five acres of ground , these were the grave em- ployments of his long life . From ...
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... House of Lords , two seats in the House of Commons , three seats in the Privy Council , a baronetcy , a blue riband , a red riband , about a hundred thousand pounds a year , and not ten pages that are worth reading . The writings of ...
... House of Lords , two seats in the House of Commons , three seats in the Privy Council , a baronetcy , a blue riband , a red riband , about a hundred thousand pounds a year , and not ten pages that are worth reading . The writings of ...
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... House of Commons was in that situation in which assemblies must be managed by corruption , or cannot be managed at all . It was not held in awe , as in the six- teenth century , by the throne . It was not held in awe , as in the ...
... House of Commons was in that situation in which assemblies must be managed by corruption , or cannot be managed at all . It was not held in awe , as in the six- teenth century , by the throne . It was not held in awe , as in the ...
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... House of Stuart , the disgraced heir of the House of Brunswick . set of members received directions from Avignon . Another set held their consultations and banquets at Norfolk House . The majority of the landed gentry , the majority of ...
... House of Stuart , the disgraced heir of the House of Brunswick . set of members received directions from Avignon . Another set held their consultations and banquets at Norfolk House . The majority of the landed gentry , the majority of ...
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... house against Fairfax , and who , after the King's re- turn , had been set down for a Knight of the Royal Oak , flew to that section of the opposition which , under pretence of assailing the existing administration , was in truth ...
... house against Fairfax , and who , after the King's re- turn , had been set down for a Knight of the Royal Oak , flew to that section of the opposition which , under pretence of assailing the existing administration , was in truth ...
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Page 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 620 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Page 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Page 524 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted.
Page 242 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 442 - The maccaroni black-balled them as vulgar fellows. Writers the most unlike in sentiment and style — Methodists and libertines, philosophers and buffoons — were for once on the same side. It is hardly too much to say, that, during a space of about thirty years, the whole lighter literature of England was coloured by the feelings which we have described.
Page 168 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.
Page 242 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.