Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 pagina's |
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Pagina xii
... understanding , and makes freedom a mockery , and the name a bye- word . The poor wretch immured in the dungeons of the Inquisition may breathe a sigh to liberty , may repeat its name , may think of it as a xii PREFACE.S.
... understanding , and makes freedom a mockery , and the name a bye- word . The poor wretch immured in the dungeons of the Inquisition may breathe a sigh to liberty , may repeat its name , may think of it as a xii PREFACE.S.
Pagina xxii
... understanding must be satisfied in the first place , or he will not budge an inch ; he cannot for the world give up a principle to a party . He would rather have slavery than liberty , unless it is a liberty precisely after his own ...
... understanding must be satisfied in the first place , or he will not budge an inch ; he cannot for the world give up a principle to a party . He would rather have slavery than liberty , unless it is a liberty precisely after his own ...
Pagina xxxiii
... understanding which subsists between Ministers and the Opposition , and on the adherence to which they are alone suffered to exist , or to have a shadow of importance in the state . They are , in fact , a conve- nient medium to break ...
... understanding which subsists between Ministers and the Opposition , and on the adherence to which they are alone suffered to exist , or to have a shadow of importance in the state . They are , in fact , a conve- nient medium to break ...
Pagina xxxiv
... understanding and passions . He has some notion of what is right , just enough to hinder him from pursuing his own interest : he has selfish and worldly prudence enough , not to let him embark in any bold or decided measure for the ...
... understanding and passions . He has some notion of what is right , just enough to hinder him from pursuing his own interest : he has selfish and worldly prudence enough , not to let him embark in any bold or decided measure for the ...
Pagina 21
... understanding , and foresight ; if they are , as they have been pronounced by one no ways favourable to them , " the most civilized , and with one exception , the most enlightened people in Europe , " surely , if any thing can kindle in ...
... understanding , and foresight ; if they are , as they have been pronounced by one no ways favourable to them , " the most civilized , and with one exception , the most enlightened people in Europe , " surely , if any thing can kindle in ...
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abuse admiration Allies answer better Bonaparte Bourbons Burke cause character Coleridge Commission of Government common consequences contempt Courier court divine right doctrine Duke of Wellington earth enemy equally evil favour feelings force Fouché France French Revolution genius give hands hates heart honour human imagination interest Jacobin John Ball justice King knaves labour Legitimacy liberty live Lord Castlereagh Lord William Bentinck Louis XVIII Malthus Malthus's mankind mind moral nation nature never object opinion Paris passions patriotism peace persons philosopher poet poetry political poor population prejudices present pretensions Prince principle Quarterly Review question reason reform Regicide Rehoboam reign religion renegado Robert Southey rotten boroughs sense sentiments shew slaves Southey Southey's spirit suppose Talleyrand taxes thing thought throne tion true truth understanding vanity Vetus vice and misery virtue Wat Tyler whole words wretched write
Populaire passages
Pagina 99 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
Pagina 372 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Pagina 190 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Pagina 142 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Pagina 144 - What is he, whose grief Bears such an emphasis ? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers ? this is I, Hamlet the Dane.
Pagina 130 - Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? 10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
Pagina 138 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war — upon church and state — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world, and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Pagina 166 - Of whatsoe'er descent their godhead be, Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold, As if he had been born of beaten gold.
Pagina 138 - And for myself, I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and Philosophy had met together, Truth and Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion. This was even beyond my hopes I returned home well satisfied.
Pagina 222 - Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench; this is it That makes the wappen'd widow wed again; She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices To the April day again.