William Pitt, earl of Chatham. Sir James Mackintosh. Lord Bacon. Sir William Temple. Gladstone on church and state. Lord Clive. Von RankeMethuen, 1903 |
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... person who had so little claim to this sort of praise as Pitt . He was undoubtedly a great man . But his was not a complete and well - proportioned greatness . The public life of Hampden or of Somers resembles a regular drama , which ...
... person who had so little claim to this sort of praise as Pitt . He was undoubtedly a great man . But his was not a complete and well - proportioned greatness . The public life of Hampden or of Somers resembles a regular drama , which ...
Pagina 12
... person of high pretensions and high spirit could long continue to act . He had , therefore , to stand against an ... persons like his brother Horace or Henry Pelham , whose industrious mediocrity gave no cause for jealousy , or from ...
... person of high pretensions and high spirit could long continue to act . He had , therefore , to stand against an ... persons like his brother Horace or Henry Pelham , whose industrious mediocrity gave no cause for jealousy , or from ...
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... person as deeply interested as the King himself in maintaining the Act of Settlement , and that , instead of serving the purposes of the Tory party , they had brought that party over to the side of Whiggism . It must indeed be admitted ...
... person as deeply interested as the King himself in maintaining the Act of Settlement , and that , instead of serving the purposes of the Tory party , they had brought that party over to the side of Whiggism . It must indeed be admitted ...
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... person has ever become so without long practice and many failures . It was by slow degrees , as Burke said , that Charles Fox became the most brilliant and powerful debater that ever lived . Charles Fox himself attributed his own ...
... person has ever become so without long practice and many failures . It was by slow degrees , as Burke said , that Charles Fox became the most brilliant and powerful debater that ever lived . Charles Fox himself attributed his own ...
Pagina 27
... person far surpassed Pitt in correct- ness of taste , in power of reasoning , in depth and variety of knowledge . His parliamentary eloquence never blazed into sudden flashes of dazzling brilliancy ; but its clear , placid , and mellow ...
... person far surpassed Pitt in correct- ness of taste , in power of reasoning , in depth and variety of knowledge . His parliamentary eloquence never blazed into sudden flashes of dazzling brilliancy ; but its clear , placid , and mellow ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 84 - 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 236 - 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 236 - 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; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 472 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
Pagina 420 - Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Pagina 473 - 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 421 - But these things, which, after the lapse of more than eighty years, cannot be told or read without horror, awakened neither remorse nor pity in the bosom of the savage Nabob. He inflicted no punishment on the murderers. He showed no tenderness to the survivors.
Pagina 236 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 420 - But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him.
Pagina 210 - ... of the head, all which they lay to the account of philosophy. The best thing that can happen to such wretches is to have done with life at once. He quotes mythical authority in support of this doctrine ; and reminds his disciples that the practice of the sons of .-F.scu l.-ipius, as described by Homer, extended only to the cure of external injuries.