The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...: Gustavus AdolphusC. Knight, 1837 |
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... says Schiller , when he had ceased to be the benefactor of Germany , and when the greatest service that he could render to Ger- man liberty was to die . However pure his views had been at the commencement of the war , success had taught ...
... says Schiller , when he had ceased to be the benefactor of Germany , and when the greatest service that he could render to Ger- man liberty was to die . However pure his views had been at the commencement of the war , success had taught ...
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... says that Albert Durer complained in great anger to the Venetian senate of the injury thus done to him , and obtained no other redress than an order that Antonio should abstain from imitating his signature . The Baron Heineken , on the ...
... says that Albert Durer complained in great anger to the Venetian senate of the injury thus done to him , and obtained no other redress than an order that Antonio should abstain from imitating his signature . The Baron Heineken , on the ...
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... says , in his own report of it ( 4 Rep . 146 ) , " was the first cause that the author of this book moved in the King's Bench . " Less than three years afterwards he was associated with Popham , the Solicitor General , in arguing before ...
... says , in his own report of it ( 4 Rep . 146 ) , " was the first cause that the author of this book moved in the King's Bench . " Less than three years afterwards he was associated with Popham , the Solicitor General , in arguing before ...
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... says , that the election was " unanimous , free , and spontaneous , without any canvassing or solicitation on his part . " At the meeting of parliament he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons . In the year 1582 , Coke married the ...
... says , that the election was " unanimous , free , and spontaneous , without any canvassing or solicitation on his part . " At the meeting of parliament he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons . In the year 1582 , Coke married the ...
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... says Bacon to him on the eve of his discharge from the office of Lord Chief Justice , " you were wont to insult over misery , and to inveigh bitterly at the persons ; which bred you many enemies , whose poison yet swelleth , and the ...
... says Bacon to him on the eve of his discharge from the office of Lord Chief Justice , " you were wont to insult over misery , and to inveigh bitterly at the persons ; which bred you many enemies , whose poison yet swelleth , and the ...
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Стр. 27 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Стр. 56 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Стр. 113 - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
Стр. 141 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
Стр. 62 - I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America.
Стр. 59 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Стр. 22 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
Стр. 61 - To withdraw, in the fulness of his power, and in the utmost gratification of his ambition, from the House of Commons (which procured him his power, and which could alone insure it to him), and to go into that Hospital of Incurables, the House of Lords, is a measure so unaccountable, that nothing but proof positive could have made me believe it : but true it is.
Стр. 26 - Catholic church is the sign and test of infallible truth. To my present feelings it seems incredible that I should ever believe that I believed in transubstantiation. But my conqueror oppressed me with the sacramental words, "Hoc est corpus meum...
Стр. 187 - I, therefore, came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Anne Page : " There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance...