Selected Essays, Volume 2Scribner and Welford, 1879 - Biography |
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... nature is such , that it has proved as difficult to convince the people at large of the wicked- ness of selling votes as of killing a pheasant or a hare . In some of the largest constituencies ( Liverpool , for one ) , at the last ...
... nature is such , that it has proved as difficult to convince the people at large of the wicked- ness of selling votes as of killing a pheasant or a hare . In some of the largest constituencies ( Liverpool , for one ) , at the last ...
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... nature : But , if the dog have his master with him , he will set upon that man , from whom he fled before . This shows , that lower natures , being backed by higher , increase in courage and strength ; and certainly man , being backed ...
... nature : But , if the dog have his master with him , he will set upon that man , from whom he fled before . This shows , that lower natures , being backed by higher , increase in courage and strength ; and certainly man , being backed ...
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... ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies . ' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax , whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read 36 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
... ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies . ' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax , whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read 36 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
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... nature of that assembly , ' he writes to Windham ; they grow , like hounds , fond of the man who shows them game , and by whose halloa they are used to be encouraged . ' The Tory squires grew fond of St. John , much as their successors ...
... nature of that assembly , ' he writes to Windham ; they grow , like hounds , fond of the man who shows them game , and by whose halloa they are used to be encouraged . ' The Tory squires grew fond of St. John , much as their successors ...
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... nature than such a wretch as this ? ' He was far from disdainful of imagery or classical illustration . Thus , in the debate on the Peerage Bill of 1719 , enacting that the English peerage should not 52 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
... nature than such a wretch as this ? ' He was far from disdainful of imagery or classical illustration . Thus , in the debate on the Peerage Bill of 1719 , enacting that the English peerage should not 52 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
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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.