Selected Essays, Volume 2Scribner and Welford, 1879 - Biography |
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... four thousand pounds went in ribbons . Unfortunately , the inherent corruption or perversity of poor human nature is such , that it has proved as difficult to convince the people at large of the wicked- ness of selling votes as of ...
... four thousand pounds went in ribbons . Unfortunately , the inherent corruption or perversity of poor human nature is such , that it has proved as difficult to convince the people at large of the wicked- ness of selling votes as of ...
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... four exciting years , was like Samson with his hair cut . There is a letter from Charles Fox to the first Earl Grey , earnestly condoling with him on the acceptance of a peerage by his father ; and who would not con- dole with a man of ...
... four exciting years , was like Samson with his hair cut . There is a letter from Charles Fox to the first Earl Grey , earnestly condoling with him on the acceptance of a peerage by his father ; and who would not con- dole with a man of ...
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... four branches . ' Here he faltered and paused . My lords if ever I rise again in this House , I give you leave to cut me off , root and branch , for ever.'2 1 Parliamentary Debates for 1678 . 2 It was the author of the Characteristics ...
... four branches . ' Here he faltered and paused . My lords if ever I rise again in this House , I give you leave to cut me off , root and branch , for ever.'2 1 Parliamentary Debates for 1678 . 2 It was the author of the Characteristics ...
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... four or five hours in the de- livery , and spoken without a pause or a note , must take rank amongst parliamentary masterpieces , although it hardly ever rose to what is popularly called eloquence . Even the peroration , containing a ...
... four or five hours in the de- livery , and spoken without a pause or a note , must take rank amongst parliamentary masterpieces , although it hardly ever rose to what is popularly called eloquence . Even the peroration , containing a ...
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... Lord North's era were William Pitt , Charles James Fox , Sheridan , and Burke , magis pares quam similes : indeed , it would be difficult to name four men of nearly equal eminence presenting ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE . 63.
... Lord North's era were William Pitt , Charles James Fox , Sheridan , and Burke , magis pares quam similes : indeed , it would be difficult to name four men of nearly equal eminence presenting ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE . 63.
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Page 103 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 57 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 90 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Page 36 - Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies...
Page 279 - No one shall run on the Sabbath Day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. ' No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day. ' No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or Fasting Day.
Page 443 - Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Page 100 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 70 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 101 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 377 - See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.