New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... conduct and fortune of John and his adversary Philip . Philip came to the crown when many of the provinces of France , by being in the hands of too powerful vassals , were in a manner dismembered from the kingdom ; the royal authority ...
... conduct and fortune of John and his adversary Philip . Philip came to the crown when many of the provinces of France , by being in the hands of too powerful vassals , were in a manner dismembered from the kingdom ; the royal authority ...
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... conduct of her husband . But John was not to be insulted with impunity . He hanged her gallants over her bed . She bore him three sons , Henry , Richard , and Edmund ; and three daughters , Jane , Eleanor , and Isabella . His ...
... conduct of her husband . But John was not to be insulted with impunity . He hanged her gallants over her bed . She bore him three sons , Henry , Richard , and Edmund ; and three daughters , Jane , Eleanor , and Isabella . His ...
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... conduct in the twenty - first and twenty - second years of his reign betrayed such a thirst for revenge , and habit of dissimulation , such despotic notions of government , and so fixed a purpose to rule without control , that no reader ...
... conduct in the twenty - first and twenty - second years of his reign betrayed such a thirst for revenge , and habit of dissimulation , such despotic notions of government , and so fixed a purpose to rule without control , that no reader ...
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... conduct of all around him : they regularly made to the king reports of the state of the neighbourhood ; and such was the fidelity of his memory , that it was difficult to mention any individual of any consequence , even in the most ...
... conduct of all around him : they regularly made to the king reports of the state of the neighbourhood ; and such was the fidelity of his memory , that it was difficult to mention any individual of any consequence , even in the most ...
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... conduct of his very ministers ; and never unbosomed himself with freedom even to his consort or his mother . It was his delight to throw an air of mystery over the most ordinary transactions : nor would pride or policy allow him , even ...
... conduct of his very ministers ; and never unbosomed himself with freedom even to his consort or his mother . It was his delight to throw an air of mystery over the most ordinary transactions : nor would pride or policy allow him , even ...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ... Richard Alfred Davenport Visualização integral - 1827 |
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admiration affairs affection appeared arts attention Burke character Charlemagne Cicero conduct court crown death delight Demosthenes dignity Duke Duke of Bedford duke of Burgundy earl elegant eloquence eminent enemies England English equal esteem excellent fame father favour favourites feel felicity fortune France Gazna genius GILBERT STUART glory happy Henry honour HORACE WALPOLE human humour Hyperides indulged James judgment justice king kingdom knew labour laws learning less LINGARD lived Lord Lord Byron Louis mankind manners memory ment merit mind minister monarch moral nation nature ness never noble occasion opinion orator parliament passion peace perhaps person Petrarch political possessed praise prejudices prince principles qualities queen R. B. SHERIDAN racter rank reign religion respect Scotland seemed sentiments Sheridan sions Sir Robert Walpole Soame Jenyns sovereign spirit subjects superior talents temper thing thought Thrasybulus throne tion vices virtues whilst wisdom
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Página 285 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Página 277 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, That the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
Página 216 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested.
Página 171 - ... of a personal courage equal to his best parts; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend; and as much to be apprehended where he was so as any man could deserve to be.
Página 275 - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
Página 103 - He was not a man of blood, and totally declined Machiavel's method, which prescribes, upon any alteration of government, as a thing absolutely necessary, to cut off all the heads of those, and extirpate their families, who are friends to the old one. It was confidently reported that, in the council of officers, it was more than once proposed, " that there might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as " the only expedient to secure the government " : but that Cromwell would never consent...
Página 200 - During the session, the first in, and the last out of the house of commons ; he passes from the senate to the camp ; and seldom seeing the seat of his ancestors, he is always in the senate to serve his country, or in the field to defend it.
Página 169 - 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...
Página 338 - Mahomet must have been gradually stained: and the influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues which are necessary to maintain the reputation of a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion; and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled (the victorious impostor!) at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes.
Página 96 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.