Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 33John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1854 |
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... foundation the popular judgments of them are based , and raising their voices with more effect or less , in behalf of this person 1 or that , as their knowledge or their sympa- thies. PORTRAIT OF ESPARTERO, DUKE of Victory,
... foundation the popular judgments of them are based , and raising their voices with more effect or less , in behalf of this person 1 or that , as their knowledge or their sympa- thies. PORTRAIT OF ESPARTERO, DUKE of Victory,
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... effect of a great number of little things , each in itself perhaps trifling , perhaps of a kind not admitting of being adequately expressed in words , and yet together perfectly con- vincing . Often within our own experience , we form ...
... effect of a great number of little things , each in itself perhaps trifling , perhaps of a kind not admitting of being adequately expressed in words , and yet together perfectly con- vincing . Often within our own experience , we form ...
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... effect . For the advancement whereof I did not greatly labor before their entry into the conclave , because your grace , at my departing , showed me precisely that faith , were not the king's persuasions , I should ye would never meddle ...
... effect . For the advancement whereof I did not greatly labor before their entry into the conclave , because your grace , at my departing , showed me precisely that faith , were not the king's persuasions , I should ye would never meddle ...
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... effect : we conceive that we can see good reasons in the condition of the country to satisfy us that they could not have taken effect ; and we blame the severity of the Government , which alone , perhaps , prevented them . The exe ...
... effect : we conceive that we can see good reasons in the condition of the country to satisfy us that they could not have taken effect ; and we blame the severity of the Government , which alone , perhaps , prevented them . The exe ...
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... our common people and the stones in the street would rise and rebel against it . ' This was his saying unto me , and others said to the like effect ; whereby you may had been defeated ; but two years before , it 1854. ] 15 CARDINAL WOLSEY .
... our common people and the stones in the street would rise and rebel against it . ' This was his saying unto me , and others said to the like effect ; whereby you may had been defeated ; but two years before , it 1854. ] 15 CARDINAL WOLSEY .
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Página 76 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Página 265 - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:" and Mr Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers.
Página 470 - if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go righ't ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe; 'for' says he, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Página 466 - The country gentleman, after staring a little at the singularity of his manner, and the oddity of the question, answered, " Yes, sir, I thank God, I remember a great deal of good weather in my time." — " That is more," said Swift, " than I can say ; I never remember any weather that was not too hot, or too cold ; too wet or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives it, at the end of the year 'tis all very well.
Página 477 - I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I can say is, that I am not in torture ; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few ; few and miserable they must be. I am, for those few days, Yours entirely, J. SWIFT. If I do not blunder, it...
Página 477 - See, how the dean begins to break! Poor gentleman, he droops apace! You plainly find it in his face. That old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays; He recollects not what he says; He cannot call his friends to mind; Forgets the place where last he dined; Plies you with stories o'er and o'er; He told them fifty times before.
Página 113 - Here out of the window it was a most pleasant sight to see the City from one end to the other with a glory about it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick round the City, and the bells rang everywhere.
Página 475 - Nor was a burden to mankind With half her course of years behind. You taught how I might youth prolong, By knowing what was right and wrong; How from my heart to bring supplies Of lustre to my fading eyes; How soon a beauteous mind repairs The loss of changed or falling hairs; How wit and virtue from within Send out a smoothness o'er the skin: Your lectures could my fancy fix, And I can please at thirty-six.
Página 80 - Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals...
Página 472 - If we let these great ministers pretend too much, there will be no governing them.