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... success in the instructing your daughter : she has so much company at home , she will not need seeking it abroad , and will more readily take the notions , you think fit to give her . As you were alone in my family , it would have been ...
... success in the instructing your daughter : she has so much company at home , she will not need seeking it abroad , and will more readily take the notions , you think fit to give her . As you were alone in my family , it would have been ...
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... success assured . As an author , however . says Lord Mahon , Chesterfield's cha- racter must stand or fall by the celebrated Letters addressed to his natural son Philip Stanhope . Viewed as compositions , these letters appear almost ...
... success assured . As an author , however . says Lord Mahon , Chesterfield's cha- racter must stand or fall by the celebrated Letters addressed to his natural son Philip Stanhope . Viewed as compositions , these letters appear almost ...
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... success . The shining coxcomb aims at all , and decides finally upon every thing , because nature has given him pertness . The degree of parts and animal spirits necessary to constitute that character , if properly applied , might have ...
... success . The shining coxcomb aims at all , and decides finally upon every thing , because nature has given him pertness . The degree of parts and animal spirits necessary to constitute that character , if properly applied , might have ...
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... success ; precision and perspicuity not being in general the favourite objects of ministers , and per- haps still less so of that minister than any other . Many people have imagined that so extensive a work would have been best formed ...
... success ; precision and perspicuity not being in general the favourite objects of ministers , and per- haps still less so of that minister than any other . Many people have imagined that so extensive a work would have been best formed ...
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... success of his arms first opened the way to it ; though at the same time it must be owned that a great number of most excellent authors , who flourished in his time , added strength and velo- city to its progress . Whereas our language ...
... success of his arms first opened the way to it ; though at the same time it must be owned that a great number of most excellent authors , who flourished in his time , added strength and velo- city to its progress . Whereas our language ...
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Adam Smith admiration ancient appear attention beauty called character common considered Countess of Bute court degree DUGALD STEWART East India Bill effect empire employed England English Europe excellence eyes favour former fortune French Revolution friends genius gentleman give hand happy heart HENRY FIELDING Homer honour Horace Walpole human ideas imagination justice king Koreish labour Lady language LAURENCE STERNE less letters libertine liberty live look Lord mankind manner marriage master ment merit mind minister moral nation nature neighbours never noble object observation occasion once opinion Pandects passions perhaps person Phocion pleasure poetry political possession principles racter reason ridiculous rules seems sense sentiment Shimei sort species spirit style things thought tion truth villenage Virgil virtue whole words writings
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Página 192 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Página 454 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Página 188 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Página 196 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Página 76 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Página 195 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
Página 451 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 461 - ... with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Página 455 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.