Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Lord Somers to HunterC. Knight, 1838 |
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... lived greatness of Sweden was broken : we can only state the causes of the war , and the important results to which it led . Peter's principal motive for engaging in it was his leading wish to make Russia a maritime and commercial ...
... lived greatness of Sweden was broken : we can only state the causes of the war , and the important results to which it led . Peter's principal motive for engaging in it was his leading wish to make Russia a maritime and commercial ...
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... lived to see it become the common philosophical creed of all nations . We next find Newton acting in a very different character . James II . had insulted the University of Cambridge by a requisition to admit a Benedictine monk to the ...
... lived to see it become the common philosophical creed of all nations . We next find Newton acting in a very different character . James II . had insulted the University of Cambridge by a requisition to admit a Benedictine monk to the ...
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... lived at Kensington , but was still fond of going occasionally to London , and visited it on February 28th , 1727 , to preside at a meeting of the Royal Society . The fatigue appears to have been too great ; for the disease attacked him ...
... lived at Kensington , but was still fond of going occasionally to London , and visited it on February 28th , 1727 , to preside at a meeting of the Royal Society . The fatigue appears to have been too great ; for the disease attacked him ...
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... , and a general account of his life , principles , and conduct . He was struck by apoplexy before he had quite com- pleed this work , but recovered the full possession of his faculties , and lived until April 26 , 1731. 112 DEFOE .
... , and a general account of his life , principles , and conduct . He was struck by apoplexy before he had quite com- pleed this work , but recovered the full possession of his faculties , and lived until April 26 , 1731. 112 DEFOE .
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his faculties , and lived until April 26 , 1731. After this attack , whether from the wish to avoid excite- ment and anxiety , or from the little advantage which his political writings had produced to him , he almost ceased to handle ...
his faculties , and lived until April 26 , 1731. After this attack , whether from the wish to avoid excite- ment and anxiety , or from the little advantage which his political writings had produced to him , he almost ceased to handle ...
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Стр. 144 - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar, that it must be considered by itself; what is true of that, is not true of anything else which he has written.
Стр. 238 - 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. 83 - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
Стр. 244 - I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America.
Стр. 432 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow.
Стр. 427 - I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.
Стр. 20 - It is not uncommon, for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the lights which he afforded them.
Стр. 214 - Millar told me that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.
Стр. 171 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo ! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums, Arrest him, empress ; or you sleep no more...
Стр. 134 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?