Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ... Ed. with Introduction, Notes and Index by F. C. Montague, Volume 2Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... less than the dominion of North America and of India . Since the commencement of the reign of George II . both branches of the House of Bourbon had drawn together with the view of asserting their colonial and commercial interests ...
... less than the dominion of North America and of India . Since the commencement of the reign of George II . both branches of the House of Bourbon had drawn together with the view of asserting their colonial and commercial interests ...
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... less of two great evils , as a necessary but painful and humiliating preservative against Popery . The Minister might plausibly say that Pulteney and Carteret , in the hope of grati- fying their own appetite for office and for revenge ...
... less of two great evils , as a necessary but painful and humiliating preservative against Popery . The Minister might plausibly say that Pulteney and Carteret , in the hope of grati- fying their own appetite for office and for revenge ...
Pagina 17
... less diffuse than those of Cicero . " This unmeaning phrase has been a hundred times quoted . That it should ever have been quoted , except to be laughed at , is strange . The vogue which it has obtained may serve to show in how ...
... less diffuse than those of Cicero . " This unmeaning phrase has been a hundred times quoted . That it should ever have been quoted , except to be laughed at , is strange . The vogue which it has obtained may serve to show in how ...
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... less ap- plicable to him , perhaps , than to any minister who ever served the Crown for so great a length of time . He gained over very few from the Opposition " ( An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs ) . 3 " Sir William Coventry ...
... less ap- plicable to him , perhaps , than to any minister who ever served the Crown for so great a length of time . He gained over very few from the Opposition " ( An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs ) . 3 " Sir William Coventry ...
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... less than one hundred thousand pounds , constantly in his hands ; and the interest on this sum he might appropriate to his own use . This practice was not secret , nor was it considered as disreputable . It was the practice of men of ...
... less than one hundred thousand pounds , constantly in his hands ; and the interest on this sum he might appropriate to his own use . This practice was not secret , nor was it considered as disreputable . It was the practice of men of ...
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Populaire passages
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 123 - These friendships are exposed to no danger from the occurrences by which other attachments are weakened or dissolved. Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...
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 428 - The battle commenced with a cannonade in which the artillery of the Nabob did scarcely any execution, while the few field-pieces of the English produced great effect. Several of the most distinguished officers in Surajah Dowlah's service fell. Disorder began to spread through his ranks. His own terror increased every moment. One of the conspirators urged on him the expediency of retreating. The insidious advice, agreeing as it did with what his own terror suggested, was readily received.
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 402 - Aurungzebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death, every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble at the mighty name of the Mahrattas. Many fertile viceroyalties were entirely subdued by them. Their dominions stretched across the peninsula from sea to sea. Mahratta captains reigned at Poonah, at Gualior, in Guzerat, in Berar, and in Tanjore.
Pagina 419 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.
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.