Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... mankind ; One of those few persons who are what they would be thought to be ; sincere without offence , firm but temperate ; uniting private worth to public principle ; a friend in need , a patriot without an eye to himself ; who never ...
... mankind ; One of those few persons who are what they would be thought to be ; sincere without offence , firm but temperate ; uniting private worth to public principle ; a friend in need , a patriot without an eye to himself ; who never ...
Pagina vii
... hypocrisy , and venality of mankind were arrayed against it , would require a considerable effort of personal courage , and would soon leave a man in a very formidable minority . Again , I am no believer Preface TABLE OF CONTENTS.
... hypocrisy , and venality of mankind were arrayed against it , would require a considerable effort of personal courage , and would soon leave a man in a very formidable minority . Again , I am no believer Preface TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Pagina x
... mankind , suf- fer us to be made the dupes of it ourselves , in thought , in word , or deed . The question of genuine liberty or of naked slavery , if put in words , should be answered by Englishmen with scorn : if put in any other ...
... mankind , suf- fer us to be made the dupes of it ourselves , in thought , in word , or deed . The question of genuine liberty or of naked slavery , if put in words , should be answered by Englishmen with scorn : if put in any other ...
Pagina xi
... testant brethren , a patron of the Bourbons , and jailor to the liberties of mankind ! Ah , John Bull ! John Bull ! thou art not what thou wert in the days of thy A " the friend , Arbuthnot ! then now thou art turned bully PREFACE . xi.
... testant brethren , a patron of the Bourbons , and jailor to the liberties of mankind ! Ah , John Bull ! John Bull ! thou art not what thou wert in the days of thy A " the friend , Arbuthnot ! then now thou art turned bully PREFACE . xi.
Pagina xii
... mankind are born slaves or free . That is the one thing necessary to know and to make good : the rest is flocci , nauci , nihili , pili . Secure this point , and all is safe : lose this , and all is lost . There are peo- ple who cannot ...
... mankind are born slaves or free . That is the one thing necessary to know and to make good : the rest is flocci , nauci , nihili , pili . Secure this point , and all is safe : lose this , and all is lost . There are peo- ple who cannot ...
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abuse admiration Allies answer Bonaparte Bourbons Burke cause character Coleridge Commission of Government common consequences contempt court divine right doctrine Duke of Wellington earth enemy evil favour feelings Fouché France French French Revolution genius give hands hates heart honour House of Commons human imagination interest Jacobin John Bull 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 profession Quarterly Review question reason reform Regicide Rehoboam reign religion renegado Revolution 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 write
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Pagina 269 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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 ! Lady M.
Pagina 314 - But pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river — A moment white, then melts for ever...
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 254 - From curses, who knows scarcely words enough To ask a blessing from his Heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide ; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form ! As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gored without a pang...
Pagina 142 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, 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 xvi - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Pagina 130 - So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David ? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse : to your tents, O Israel : now see to thine own house, David.
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 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.