The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs. Political essays. Advertisement, etc., from The eloquence of the British senateJ. M. Dent & Company, 1902 |
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... nature that an administration acting upon such principles as I have here described should feel , or be capable of inspiring into others , either true patriotism , a sincere and manly spirit of independence , or any particle of that high ...
... nature that an administration acting upon such principles as I have here described should feel , or be capable of inspiring into others , either true patriotism , a sincere and manly spirit of independence , or any particle of that high ...
Pagina 8
... nature , that are never worth a hundred years ' purchase , that may crumble to pieces of their own accord , or slip out of our hands in various ways before the end of the contest , and which afterwards will be no more secure against ...
... nature , that are never worth a hundred years ' purchase , that may crumble to pieces of their own accord , or slip out of our hands in various ways before the end of the contest , and which afterwards will be no more secure against ...
Pagina 9
... nature to a certain degree secure ; because in maintaining them we have to contend with those whom we have bound ... natural strength and advantages are at all equal . I know nothing but some such reasoning as this on the inefficiency of ...
... nature to a certain degree secure ; because in maintaining them we have to contend with those whom we have bound ... natural strength and advantages are at all equal . I know nothing but some such reasoning as this on the inefficiency of ...
Pagina 11
... nature or justice of the occasion , but the use intended to be made of it ; the principles and views on which we act ... natural jealousy of others , and that fierce impatience of control , that must become habitual to those who had had ...
... nature or justice of the occasion , but the use intended to be made of it ; the principles and views on which we act ... natural jealousy of others , and that fierce impatience of control , that must become habitual to those who had had ...
Pagina 14
... nature , and by the complete negation of every other talent that might interfere with the only one which he possessed in a supreme degree , and which indeed may be made to include the appearance of all others — an artful use of words ...
... nature , and by the complete negation of every other talent that might interfere with the only one which he possessed in a supreme degree , and which indeed may be made to include the appearance of all others — an artful use of words ...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs ... William Hazlitt Volledige weergave - 1902 |
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs ... William Hazlitt Volledige weergave - 1902 |
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs ... William Hazlitt Volledige weergave - 1902 |
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Pagina 192 - 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 157 - 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 156 - 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 35 - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Pagina 295 - Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out, Olivia ! O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth, But you should pity me.
Pagina 122 - 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 152 - 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 459 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pagina 420 - Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business; of infinite wit and pleasantry; of a delightful temper; and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required.
Pagina 46 - Tis avarice all, ambition is no more ! See, all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See, all our fools aspiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore ! All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law : While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry — ' Nothing is sacred now but villany.