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Pagina 20
... less than twenty years , however , the colony was seized by the Dutch ; some years afterwards it was transferred to ourselves ; and so for a time the immigration from Sweden was arrested . " The paper then turns to consider especially ...
... less than twenty years , however , the colony was seized by the Dutch ; some years afterwards it was transferred to ourselves ; and so for a time the immigration from Sweden was arrested . " The paper then turns to consider especially ...
Pagina 26
... less significant , can scarcely be considered reasonable . It is at least to be hoped that the typical New Zealander of Lord Macaulay will investigate the annals of our own times in a spirit of less trivial criticism ; lest the ...
... less significant , can scarcely be considered reasonable . It is at least to be hoped that the typical New Zealander of Lord Macaulay will investigate the annals of our own times in a spirit of less trivial criticism ; lest the ...
Pagina 29
... less stably constituted ; -our present business is to see what position amongst them was held by Mercia . The very name will to a large extent help us to form some adequate idea of its condition and circumstances . Mercia means a ...
... less stably constituted ; -our present business is to see what position amongst them was held by Mercia . The very name will to a large extent help us to form some adequate idea of its condition and circumstances . Mercia means a ...
Pagina 35
... less than thirty kings , as they are called by the chronicler , -Thanes that is of sufficient importance to hold themselves as semi - independent by reason of the number of the forces they held under their command - followed him in this ...
... less than thirty kings , as they are called by the chronicler , -Thanes that is of sufficient importance to hold themselves as semi - independent by reason of the number of the forces they held under their command - followed him in this ...
Pagina 43
... less chances of failure . If a modern king is a quiet , judicious , respectable man , we are quite satisfied with him ; but in those old days a king had to stand so high above his fellows , as to become to them the central figure in the ...
... less chances of failure . If a modern king is a quiet , judicious , respectable man , we are quite satisfied with him ; but in those old days a king had to stand so high above his fellows , as to become to them the central figure in the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 68 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 73 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Pagina 35 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Pagina 75 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Pagina 51 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what...
Pagina 80 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Pagina 65 - While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched...
Pagina 80 - Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every " man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when the maxim of them of old time still prevailed over every other consideration, — " Thou shalt love u thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.