New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers, 2권C. and C. Whittingham; Published by Carpenter and son, 1827 |
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... political wisdom ; but it was purchased at the expense of enormous sums wrung from a suffering and im- poverished ... politics rendered him anxious to preserve peace with his more immediate neighbours . He lived on the most friendly ...
... political wisdom ; but it was purchased at the expense of enormous sums wrung from a suffering and im- poverished ... politics rendered him anxious to preserve peace with his more immediate neighbours . He lived on the most friendly ...
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... most of them in the skill with which he fomented the dissensions among his antago- nists , and improved to the best advantage the unexpected events which chequered the busy scene of French politics CHARACTERS . 27 Henry V Ditto.
... most of them in the skill with which he fomented the dissensions among his antago- nists , and improved to the best advantage the unexpected events which chequered the busy scene of French politics CHARACTERS . 27 Henry V Ditto.
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... politics . Success , however , gave a tinge of arrogance to his character . He did not sufficiently respect the prejudices , or spare the feelings of his new subjects : the pomp and superiority , which he displayed , mortified their ...
... politics . Success , however , gave a tinge of arrogance to his character . He did not sufficiently respect the prejudices , or spare the feelings of his new subjects : the pomp and superiority , which he displayed , mortified their ...
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... political wisdom . He seems , indeed , to have been formed by nature for the circum- stances in which accident had placed him . With a mind dark and mistrustful , tenacious of its own secrets , and adroit in divining the secrets of ...
... political wisdom . He seems , indeed , to have been formed by nature for the circum- stances in which accident had placed him . With a mind dark and mistrustful , tenacious of its own secrets , and adroit in divining the secrets of ...
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... politics may be doubted , which , under the pretence of sup- porting the balance of power , repeatedly involved the nation in continental hostilities . Yet even these errors served to throw a lustre round the English throne , and raised ...
... politics may be doubted , which , under the pretence of sup- porting the balance of power , repeatedly involved the nation in continental hostilities . Yet even these errors served to throw a lustre round the English throne , and raised ...
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275 페이지 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
285 페이지 - 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.
277 페이지 - ... 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.
216 페이지 - 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.
332 페이지 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
200 페이지 - 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.
171 페이지 - ... 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.
96 페이지 - 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.
201 페이지 - ... to serve his country, or in the field to defend it. But in all well-wrought compositions, some particulars stand out more eminently than the rest ; and the things which will carry his name to posterity, are his two bills ; I mean that for a limitation of the claims of the crown upon landed estates ; and this for the relief of the Roman Catholics.
336 페이지 - Huh. the task would still be difficult and the success uncertain : at the distance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his shade through a cloud of religious incense ; and could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of Mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to the conqueror of Arabia.