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Thomas Carlyle. PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION1 [ 1837 ] Ir appears to be , if not stated in words , yet tacitly felt and understood everywhere , that the event of these modern ages is the French Revolution . A huge ...
Thomas Carlyle. PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION1 [ 1837 ] Ir appears to be , if not stated in words , yet tacitly felt and understood everywhere , that the event of these modern ages is the French Revolution . A huge ...
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... appear not to be known . Finally , our English histories do likewise abound : copious if not in facts , yet in reflections on facts . They will prove to the most incredulous that this French Revolution was , as Chamfort said , no rose ...
... appear not to be known . Finally , our English histories do likewise abound : copious if not in facts , yet in reflections on facts . They will prove to the most incredulous that this French Revolution was , as Chamfort said , no rose ...
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... appear there is far less reticence than was looked for ! Various persons , name and surname , have received pain ' : nay , the very Hero of the Biography is rendered unheroic ; unornamental facts of him , and of those he had to do with ...
... appear there is far less reticence than was looked for ! Various persons , name and surname , have received pain ' : nay , the very Hero of the Biography is rendered unheroic ; unornamental facts of him , and of those he had to do with ...
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... appear at the cabin in the glen before its inhabitants were astir in the morning . The clatter of Sibyl Grey's hoofs , the yelping of Mustard and Spice , and his own joyous shout of réveillée under our windows , were the signal that he ...
... appear at the cabin in the glen before its inhabitants were astir in the morning . The clatter of Sibyl Grey's hoofs , the yelping of Mustard and Spice , and his own joyous shout of réveillée under our windows , were the signal that he ...
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... appears to be even now ; everywhere the ready - writer is found bragging strangely of his readiness . In a late translated Don Carlos , one of the most indifferent translations ever done with any sign of ability , a hitherto unknown ...
... appears to be even now ; everywhere the ready - writer is found bragging strangely of his readiness . In a late translated Don Carlos , one of the most indifferent translations ever done with any sign of ability , a hitherto unknown ...
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Pagina 451 - While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages: " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless. " Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness ; Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you ; Work, and despair not.
Pagina 61 - ... breeches, and well-polished jockey-boots of the less distinguished cavaliers about him. Dr. Wollaston was in black; and with his noble serene dignity of countenance might have passed for a sporting archbishop.
Pagina 381 - I believe to be, in a deeper or less deep degree, the universal one ; and that every student and reader of History, who strives earnestly to conceive for himself what manner of Fact and Man this or the other vague Historical Name can have been, will, as the first and directest indication of all, search eagerly for a Portrait, for all the reasonable Portraits there are ; and never rest till he have made out, if possible, what the man's natural face was like. Often I have found a Portrait superior...
Pagina 67 - We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ; your Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting near the heart of them...
Pagina 433 - I believe you will find in all histories of nations, that this has been at the origin and foundation of them all ; and that no nation which did not contemplate this wonderful universe with an awestricken and reverential belief that there was a great unknown, omnipotent, and all-wise and all-just Being, superintending all men in it, and all interests in it, — no nation ever came to very much, nor did any man either, who forgot that. If a man did forget that, he forgot the most important part of...
Pagina 123 - The widow is gathering nettles for her children's dinner ; a perfumed Seigneur, delicately lounging in the CEil-de-Boeuf, has an alchemy whereby he will extract from her the third nettle, and name it Rent and Law : such an arrangement must end.
Pagina 149 - rights of man,' this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
Pagina 223 - The lieutenant of Ireland came but on Monday to town late, on Tuesday rested, on Wednesday came to parliament, but ere night he was caged. Intolerable pride and oppression cries to Heaven for a vengeance. The lower house closed their doors, the speaker kept the keys till his accusation was concluded. Thereafter Mr. Pym went up, with a number at his back, to the higher house ; and, in a pretty short speech, did, in the name of the...
Pagina 332 - Exeter-Hall friends ; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world!
Pagina 381 - Often I have found a Portrait superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written "Biographies," as Biographies are written; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the Biographies could for the first time be read, and some human interpretation be made of them...