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... force of his nation ; who by his keen intellect devises laws , avoids evils , secures social order , and controls the wild elements of popular feeling : and the Poet is B the man who guides the moral power of his nation.
... force of his nation ; who by his keen intellect devises laws , avoids evils , secures social order , and controls the wild elements of popular feeling : and the Poet is B the man who guides the moral power of his nation.
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... force between which he calls on us to choose . Granting that the Soldier fairly re- presents the physical strength of his nation , might we not say with justice that the Philosopher is a completer type of its mind than the Statesman ...
... force between which he calls on us to choose . Granting that the Soldier fairly re- presents the physical strength of his nation , might we not say with justice that the Philosopher is a completer type of its mind than the Statesman ...
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... Force , too — the force of intellect By a stroke of the pen , he does more than the Warrior can do in fifty battles . His breath is stronger than the roar of cannon . We cannot see the Statesman to greater advantage than by comparing ...
... Force , too — the force of intellect By a stroke of the pen , he does more than the Warrior can do in fifty battles . His breath is stronger than the roar of cannon . We cannot see the Statesman to greater advantage than by comparing ...
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Frederick Rowton. simple force of written law . His parchment conquers more completely than the other's sword . His will binds faster than the other's chains . There is something almost sublime in a great Statesman . He has the keen ...
Frederick Rowton. simple force of written law . His parchment conquers more completely than the other's sword . His will binds faster than the other's chains . There is something almost sublime in a great Statesman . He has the keen ...
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... Force ) in blood ; the States- man pens his law on mouldering parchment ; the Poet traces his upon the universal heart of man : and while the heart of man exists , the Poet's laws can never die . For they are laws of beauty and of ...
... Force ) in blood ; the States- man pens his law on mouldering parchment ; the Poet traces his upon the universal heart of man : and while the heart of man exists , the Poet's laws can never die . For they are laws of beauty and of ...
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admit ambition argument assertion barbarism believe blood Capital Punishment cause character Cicero civilisation crime Cromwell Cromwell's Crusades debate defend Demosthenes Doctor Johnson Drama Eastern world Edinburgh Review Education equal error Europe evil fact favour fear feel female FIFTH SPEAKER Genius gentleman who spoke greater happiness heart Heaven heroes honour human imagine immoral infliction intellect irreligion John Huss judge justice justifiable kill King knowledge last speaker look like hypocrisy LORD JEFFREY's Essays MACAULAY'S man's means mental ments Milton mind moral moral plays murder Napoleon nature never Oliver Cromwell opener opinion Orator Oratory Paradise Lost passion peace Poet principle Printing Press proof prove question racter religion religious reply ruler seems Shakspere Shakspere's SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S slavery soul SPEAKER.-Sir speech Stage Statesman Steam Engine superior sure sword things thought tion true truth virtue Warrior whilst wisdom woman words
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Página 172 - For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Página 181 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Página 182 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 173 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Página 19 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him follow me!
Página 181 - All murdered : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humoured thus, Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell king! Cover your heads...
Página 181 - Shall be unsaid for me : against the threats Of malice or of sorcery, or that power Which erring men call Chance, this I hold firm, Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthrall'd ; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory...
Página 180 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 207 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Página 181 - tis too late. Lucio. You are too cold. [To Isabella. Isab. Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word, May call it back again: Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.