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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Pagina 7
... never could be such a thing as peace among mankind . If one party is to be kept in a state of perpetual alarm from a distant apprehension of losing the superiority they possess in wealth , or luxury , or power , and the other to be ...
... never could be such a thing as peace among mankind . If one party is to be kept in a state of perpetual alarm from a distant apprehension of losing the superiority they possess in wealth , or luxury , or power , and the other to be ...
Pagina 12
... never hope for peace , but either by giving to France such an ascendancy as would overawe the rest of Europe , or by throwing ourselves at last on the mercy of our unrelenting foe . We had not forgotten the partition of Poland , the ...
... never hope for peace , but either by giving to France such an ascendancy as would overawe the rest of Europe , or by throwing ourselves at last on the mercy of our unrelenting foe . We had not forgotten the partition of Poland , the ...
Pagina 15
... never any plan , he could not be con- victed of inconsistency , and his own pride and obstinacy were the only rules of his conduct . Having no insight into human nature , no sympathy with the passions of men , or apprehension of their ...
... never any plan , he could not be con- victed of inconsistency , and his own pride and obstinacy were the only rules of his conduct . Having no insight into human nature , no sympathy with the passions of men , or apprehension of their ...
Pagina 16
... never set himself to examine the force of the objections that were brought against his measures , or attempted to establish them upon clear , solid grounds of his own ; but constantly contented himself with first gravely stating the ...
... never set himself to examine the force of the objections that were brought against his measures , or attempted to establish them upon clear , solid grounds of his own ; but constantly contented himself with first gravely stating the ...
Pagina 17
... never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose However , habit , joined to the peculiar mechanical memory which he possessed , carried his correctness to a degree which , in an extemporaneous speaker , was almost miraculous ; he ...
... never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose However , habit , joined to the peculiar mechanical memory which he possessed , carried his correctness to a degree which , in an extemporaneous speaker , was almost miraculous ; he ...
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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.