Gallery of notable men and women, compiled by the editor of 'The treasury of modern biography'W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1879 - 224 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... child , and of a life full of self - devotion for the good of others . The Lady Grizell was the daughter of Sir Patrick Hume , and the eldest of a family of eighteen children . Her father got seriously involved in the political troubles ...
... child , and of a life full of self - devotion for the good of others . The Lady Grizell was the daughter of Sir Patrick Hume , and the eldest of a family of eighteen children . Her father got seriously involved in the political troubles ...
Pagina 6
... child exhibit such a readiness of resource and expedient in moments of emergency , such activity and judgment , that when similar occasions arose , as they but too frequently did , he ever after unhesitatingly employed her in preference ...
... child exhibit such a readiness of resource and expedient in moments of emergency , such activity and judgment , that when similar occasions arose , as they but too frequently did , he ever after unhesitatingly employed her in preference ...
Pagina 7
... child , and many were the perils the dutiful and brave girl ran in successfully accomplishing them . At home she was ... children . The movement was only just made in time . He had barely effected his escape from the house and secreted ...
... child , and many were the perils the dutiful and brave girl ran in successfully accomplishing them . At home she was ... children . The movement was only just made in time . He had barely effected his escape from the house and secreted ...
Pagina 10
... very skilful ; and years after , when surrounded with children of her own , she used to amuse them by recounting her feats of dexterity in this particular service . One day they had for dinner the 10 NOTABLE MEN AND WOMEN .
... very skilful ; and years after , when surrounded with children of her own , she used to amuse them by recounting her feats of dexterity in this particular service . One day they had for dinner the 10 NOTABLE MEN AND WOMEN .
Pagina 11
... children were intent upon their broth , she contrived , unob- served by all , to convey it from the dish into her lap . When her brother Sandie had devoured his broth , he looked up for a portion of the head , but to his amazement it ...
... children were intent upon their broth , she contrived , unob- served by all , to convey it from the dish into her lap . When her brother Sandie had devoured his broth , he looked up for a portion of the head , but to his amazement it ...
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afterwards amongst amusing appeared Baillie Baillie of Jerviswoode became biographer Bithoor British called Carlyle's Cawnpore character cheerful child command cottage daughter death door Edinburgh Review enemy England English Eton eyes father fear feel fire French Revolution friends gave Greek Grizell hand happy Havelock head heard heart honour hope Hugh Wheeler India intellectual Lady LADY GRIZELL BAILLIE Lasswade laudanum laugh letters literary lived London looked Lord Macaulay Malay manner ment mind morning mother nature never night occasion opium opium-eater Oxford Street passed person pleasure poor Quincey Quincey's reader regarding regiment remarkable returned Sartor Resartus seemed sent servant Sir James Outram Sir Patrick sister sleep soldiers spirit suffering suppose things Thomas Carlyle THOMAS DE QUINCEY thou thought tion took troops wife wish words write wrote young
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Pagina 80 - But I took it:— and in an hour, oh heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes:— this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me— in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed.
Pagina 80 - ... of the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages...
Pagina 168 - He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated everything he looked upon.
Pagina 56 - The poor child crept close to me for warmth, and for security against her ghostly enemies. When I was not more than usually ill, I took her into my arms, so that, in general, she was tolerably warm, and often slept when I could not...
Pagina 88 - I honour the barbarians too much by supposing them capable of any pleasures approaching to the intellectual ones of an Englishman. For music is an intellectual or a sensual pleasure according to the temperament of him who hears it.
Pagina 82 - ... the loves and the hatreds, of the drinker; opium, on the contrary, communicates serenity and equipoise to all the faculties, active or passive; and, with respect to the temper and moral feelings in general, it gives simply that sort of vital warmth which is approved by the judgment, and which would probably always accompany a bodily constitution of primeval or antediluvian health.
Pagina 170 - We went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel, then without his cap, and down into Wordsworth's country. There we sat down, and talked of the immortality of the soul. It was not Carlyle's fault that we talked on that topic, for he had the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls, and did not like to place himself where no step can be taken. But he was honest and true, and cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together, and saw how every event...
Pagina 108 - ... such a stormy night) place only two cups and saucers on the tea-tray ; and, if you know how to paint such a thing symbolically, or otherwise, paint me an eternal tea-pot, — eternal a parte ante, and a parte post ; for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four in the morning.
Pagina 168 - I found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart.
Pagina 119 - He was not a reassuring man for nervous people to live with, as those nights were exceptions on which he didn't set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, ' Papa, your hair is on fire,' of which a calm ' Is it, my love?' and a hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken.