Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... 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 betrayed an individual or a cause he pre- tended to serve - in ...
... 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 betrayed an individual or a cause he pre- tended to serve - in ...
Pagina x
... 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 shape than words , it must be answered in a different way , unless ...
... 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 shape than words , it must be answered in a different way , unless ...
Pagina xi
... thought necessary to undermine the privileges or break the spirit of the nation ; when an Englishman felt that his name was another name for independence , envy of less happier lands , " when it was his pride to be born , and his wish ...
... thought necessary to undermine the privileges or break the spirit of the nation ; when an Englishman felt that his name was another name for independence , envy of less happier lands , " when it was his pride to be born , and his wish ...
Pagina xiii
... thoughts ; his very imagination is enthralled , and he can only look forward to the never - ending flight of future years , and see the same gloomy prospect of abject wretchedness and hopeless desolation spread out for himself and his ...
... thoughts ; his very imagination is enthralled , and he can only look forward to the never - ending flight of future years , and see the same gloomy prospect of abject wretchedness and hopeless desolation spread out for himself and his ...
Pagina 16
... thought it not very easy for any charge of not speaking out to be urged against us . However , we obey their call most willingly . Does The Courier , they ask , mean to insinuate , that be- cause the South of France is more inclined to ...
... thought it not very easy for any charge of not speaking out to be urged against us . However , we obey their call most willingly . Does The Courier , they ask , mean to insinuate , that be- cause the South of France is more inclined to ...
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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.