Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volume 41812 |
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... Character of Lord Hardwicke ........ Lord Chesterfield . 134 Character of Mr. Grenville Characters of Lord Chatham and Mr. Charles Townsend . Burke . 135 Burke . 138 CONTENTS . ON Happiness On the same Subject BOOK VIII CONTENTS .
... Character of Lord Hardwicke ........ Lord Chesterfield . 134 Character of Mr. Grenville Characters of Lord Chatham and Mr. Charles Townsend . Burke . 135 Burke . 138 CONTENTS . ON Happiness On the same Subject BOOK VIII CONTENTS .
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... Subject ....... Lord Lyttelton . 217 An Absolute and Limited Monarchy compared . 229 Lord Lyttelton . 237 Responsibility of Kings in the Article of War.Shakspeare . 241 The Power of Conscience ... A Grave Scene ... Duelling ridiculed ...
... Subject ....... Lord Lyttelton . 217 An Absolute and Limited Monarchy compared . 229 Lord Lyttelton . 237 Responsibility of Kings in the Article of War.Shakspeare . 241 The Power of Conscience ... A Grave Scene ... Duelling ridiculed ...
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... subjects , nor the power of making them happy . Lewis XI . did a great deal for the regal power , but nothing for the happiness or glory of the nation . Francis I. gave birth to trade , navigation , and all the arts ; but he was too ...
... subjects , nor the power of making them happy . Lewis XI . did a great deal for the regal power , but nothing for the happiness or glory of the nation . Francis I. gave birth to trade , navigation , and all the arts ; but he was too ...
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... subjects of Francis I. had dis- covered the uncultivated country of Canada ; but , by the little which the French did in the begin- ning of the sixteenth century , we may see what they are capable of when properly conducted . Voltaire ...
... subjects of Francis I. had dis- covered the uncultivated country of Canada ; but , by the little which the French did in the begin- ning of the sixteenth century , we may see what they are capable of when properly conducted . Voltaire ...
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... subjects . They aspired openly at being independent : the bonds which connected the principal members of the constitution with the crown were dissolved . A kingdom , considerable in name and in extent , was broken into as many separate ...
... subjects . They aspired openly at being independent : the bonds which connected the principal members of the constitution with the crown were dissolved . A kingdom , considerable in name and in extent , was broken into as many separate ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Página 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Página 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Página 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Página 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Página 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Página 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Página 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Página 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.