New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... throne with decency , perhaps with honour : but his lot cast him into one of the most turbulent periods of our history , without the talents to command respect , or the authority to enforce submission . Yet his incapacity was productive ...
... throne with decency , perhaps with honour : but his lot cast him into one of the most turbulent periods of our history , without the talents to command respect , or the authority to enforce submission . Yet his incapacity was productive ...
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... throne , and murdered in a prison . Of this difference between the lot of the father and the son , the solution must be sought in the manners and character of the age . They both reigned over proud and factious nobles , jealous of their ...
... throne , and murdered in a prison . Of this difference between the lot of the father and the son , the solution must be sought in the manners and character of the age . They both reigned over proud and factious nobles , jealous of their ...
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... throne , and to the precaution taken by his mother and her friends to defeat the supposed designs of his uncles . By these he was estranged from the princes of his blood , whose pride refused to pay court to a boy ; and whose neglect ...
... throne , and to the precaution taken by his mother and her friends to defeat the supposed designs of his uncles . By these he was estranged from the princes of his blood , whose pride refused to pay court to a boy ; and whose neglect ...
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... throne , he was always the last to join his adherents : and in manhood , when he was firmly seated on it , he entirely abandoned the charge of military affairs to his brother , the Duke of Gloucester . To the chief supporters of the ...
... throne , he was always the last to join his adherents : and in manhood , when he was firmly seated on it , he entirely abandoned the charge of military affairs to his brother , the Duke of Gloucester . To the chief supporters of the ...
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... throne , not only from a private fortune , which might teach him moderation ; but from the fortune of an exiled man , which had given him the spurs of industry and sagacity . And his government being rather prosperous than calm , had ...
... throne , not only from a private fortune , which might teach him moderation ; but from the fortune of an exiled man , which had given him the spurs of industry and sagacity . And his government being rather prosperous than calm , had ...
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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.