Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 pagina's |
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Pagina xiv
... at least triumph in her shame and her despair , but them- selves became objects of pity and derision . Their determination to persist in extremity of wrong only brought on themselves repeated defeat , disaster , and dismay Xiv PREFACE .
... at least triumph in her shame and her despair , but them- selves became objects of pity and derision . Their determination to persist in extremity of wrong only brought on themselves repeated defeat , disaster , and dismay Xiv PREFACE .
Pagina xxiii
... object of his choice , with some impossible condition . annexed to it , -to dream , to talk , to write , to be meddlesome and troublesome about , to serve him for a topic of captious discontent or vague declamation , and which if he saw ...
... object of his choice , with some impossible condition . annexed to it , -to dream , to talk , to write , to be meddlesome and troublesome about , to serve him for a topic of captious discontent or vague declamation , and which if he saw ...
Pagina xxiv
... object , and with his desperate club dashes out his neighbour's brains , and thinks he has done a good piece of service to the cause , because he has glutted his own ill - humour and self - will , which he mistakes for the love of ...
... object , and with his desperate club dashes out his neighbour's brains , and thinks he has done a good piece of service to the cause , because he has glutted his own ill - humour and self - will , which he mistakes for the love of ...
Pagina xxix
... object of personal aggrandisement , moves unremittingly to it , and carries after it millions of its slaves and train- bearers . Can you persuade a king to hear reason , to submit his pretensions to the tribunal of the people , to give ...
... object of personal aggrandisement , moves unremittingly to it , and carries after it millions of its slaves and train- bearers . Can you persuade a king to hear reason , to submit his pretensions to the tribunal of the people , to give ...
Pagina 6
... object of which seems to be to criticise the political opinions of the Edinburgh Reviewers with respect to Spain , and to prove that the author is wiser after the event than they were before it , in which he has very nearly succeeded ...
... object of which seems to be to criticise the political opinions of the Edinburgh Reviewers with respect to Spain , and to prove that the author is wiser after the event than they were before it , in which he has very nearly succeeded ...
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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
Populaire passages
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.