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Pagina 8
... received them from us by direct communi- cation . Isolated by our situation , isolated by our manners , we found truth , but we did not impart it . France has been the interpreter between England and mankind . In the time of Walpole ...
... received them from us by direct communi- cation . Isolated by our situation , isolated by our manners , we found truth , but we did not impart it . France has been the interpreter between England and mankind . In the time of Walpole ...
Pagina 23
... received directions from Avignon . Another set held their consultations and banquets at Norfolk House . The majority of the landed gentry , the majority of the paro- chial clergy , one of the universities , and a strong party in the ...
... received directions from Avignon . Another set held their consultations and banquets at Norfolk House . The majority of the landed gentry , the majority of the paro- chial clergy , one of the universities , and a strong party in the ...
Pagina 38
... received From nature , an intense and glowing mind . " In an age of low and dirty prostitution , in the age of Doding- ton and Sandys , it was something to have a man who might perhaps , under some strong excitement , have been tempted ...
... received From nature , an intense and glowing mind . " In an age of low and dirty prostitution , in the age of Doding- ton and Sandys , it was something to have a man who might perhaps , under some strong excitement , have been tempted ...
Pagina 40
... received much benefit from his excursion , and continued , till the close of his life , to suffer most severely from his constitutional malady . His father was now dead , and had left very little to the younger children . It was ...
... received much benefit from his excursion , and continued , till the close of his life , to suffer most severely from his constitutional malady . His father was now dead , and had left very little to the younger children . It was ...
Pagina 44
... received from persons like his brother Horace or Henry Pelham , whose industrious mediocrity gave no cause for jealousy , or from clever adventurers , whose situa- tion and character diminished the dread which their talents might have ...
... received from persons like his brother Horace or Henry Pelham , whose industrious mediocrity gave no cause for jealousy , or from clever adventurers , whose situa- tion and character diminished the dread which their talents might have ...
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Pagina 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Pagina 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Pagina 455 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Pagina 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Pagina 628 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our Constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Pagina 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Pagina 628 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Pagina 479 - Place Ignatius Loyola at Oxford. He is certain to become the head of a formidable secession. Place John Wesley at Rome. He is certain to be the first General of a new society devoted to the interests and honour of the Church.
Pagina 632 - House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Pagina 328 - ... remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and indeed exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, — a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import, — of...