New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... attachments , and forgiving in his enmities , without vices , but also without energy , he was a good man , and a weak monarch . In a more peaceful age , when the empire of the laws had been strengthened by habits of obedience , he ...
... attachments , and forgiving in his enmities , without vices , but also without energy , he was a good man , and a weak monarch . In a more peaceful age , when the empire of the laws had been strengthened by habits of obedience , he ...
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... attachment which they pro- fessed for him while living , by the extraordinary pomp with which they paid the last duties to his remains . LINGARD . HENRY VI . On that day expired the reign of Henry VI . , a prince whose personal ...
... attachment which they pro- fessed for him while living , by the extraordinary pomp with which they paid the last duties to his remains . LINGARD . HENRY VI . On that day expired the reign of Henry VI . , a prince whose personal ...
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... attachment to the new , and a violent anti- pathy to the ancient doctrines . He believed it to be the first of his duties to extirpate what he had been taught to deem the idolatrous worship of his fathers ; and with his last breath he ...
... attachment to the new , and a violent anti- pathy to the ancient doctrines . He believed it to be the first of his duties to extirpate what he had been taught to deem the idolatrous worship of his fathers ; and with his last breath he ...
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... attachment , and sought the opportunity of entering into private conversation with indivi- duals . Her progresses were undoubtedly under- taken for pleasure ; but she made them subservient to policy , and increased her popularity by her ...
... attachment , and sought the opportunity of entering into private conversation with indivi- duals . Her progresses were undoubtedly under- taken for pleasure ; but she made them subservient to policy , and increased her popularity by her ...
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... government more from a fear of the return of his predecessor , than from any attachment to his own person , or respect for his right to the throne . MACPHERSON . QUEEN ANNE . THUS died Anne Stuart , queen of CHARACTERS . 115.
... government more from a fear of the return of his predecessor , than from any attachment to his own person , or respect for his right to the throne . MACPHERSON . QUEEN ANNE . THUS died Anne Stuart , queen of CHARACTERS . 115.
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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.
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.
275 페이지 - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
103 페이지 - He was not a man of blood, and totally declined Machiavel's method, which prescribes, upon any alteration of government, as a thing absolutely necessary, to cut off all the heads of those, and extirpate their families, who are friends to the old one. It was confidently reported that, in the council of officers, it was more than once proposed, " that there might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as " the only expedient to secure the government " : but that Cromwell would never consent...
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.
169 페이지 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them...
338 페이지 - Mahomet must have been gradually stained: and the influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues which are necessary to maintain the reputation of a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion; and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled (the victorious impostor!) at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes.
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.