Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Том 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 |
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... ment , great powers of application , and a constant eye to the main chance . In his youth he was , it seems , fond of practical jokes . Yet even out of these he contrived to extract some pecuniary profit . When he was studying the law ...
... ment , great powers of application , and a constant eye to the main chance . In his youth he was , it seems , fond of practical jokes . Yet even out of these he contrived to extract some pecuniary profit . When he was studying the law ...
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... ment . These were the means , and the only means , which she had at her command for carrying her de- crees into execution , for resisting foreign enemies , and for crushing domestic treason . There was not a ward in the city , there was ...
... ment . These were the means , and the only means , which she had at her command for carrying her de- crees into execution , for resisting foreign enemies , and for crushing domestic treason . There was not a ward in the city , there was ...
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... ment , however constituted , must respect their wishes and tremble at their discontents . It is indeed most desirable that such a people should exercise a direct influence on the conduct of affairs , and should make * It must be ...
... ment , however constituted , must respect their wishes and tremble at their discontents . It is indeed most desirable that such a people should exercise a direct influence on the conduct of affairs , and should make * It must be ...
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... ment of Eliot , the Stuarts had attempted to discover the fundamental rules which guided her conduct in all her dealings with her people , they would have perceived that their policy was then most unlike to hers , when to a superficial ...
... ment of Eliot , the Stuarts had attempted to discover the fundamental rules which guided her conduct in all her dealings with her people , they would have perceived that their policy was then most unlike to hers , when to a superficial ...
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... ment received little . The American viceroys and the farmers of the revenue became rich , while the merchants broke , while the peasantry starved , while the body - servants of the sovereign remained unpaid , while the soldiers of the ...
... ment received little . The American viceroys and the farmers of the revenue became rich , while the merchants broke , while the peasantry starved , while the body - servants of the sovereign remained unpaid , while the soldiers of the ...
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Стр. 240 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Стр. 37 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Стр. 262 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Стр. 475 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
Стр. 189 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Стр. 426 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Стр. 2 - ... occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum.
Стр. 357 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
Стр. 209 - We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel.
Стр. 371 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.