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... individual , may be meritoriously performed , may be gracefully worn ; but , as an object of ambition , they are infinitely below the independent control of our fellow - citizens , and perhaps scarcely fur- nish a compensation for ...
... individual , may be meritoriously performed , may be gracefully worn ; but , as an object of ambition , they are infinitely below the independent control of our fellow - citizens , and perhaps scarcely fur- nish a compensation for ...
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... individuals , exercise a dominion over the passions , and excite admiration by their talents and accomplishments ; but the plastic power of woman , the ceaseless and penetrating spirit of her influence , is not manifested in such ...
... individuals , exercise a dominion over the passions , and excite admiration by their talents and accomplishments ; but the plastic power of woman , the ceaseless and penetrating spirit of her influence , is not manifested in such ...
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... individuals : but the distinction has always been recognized in France . In the time of Louis XIII the style of gallantry seemed to incline again to the metaphysics and pedantry of an earlier age . Cardinal Richelieu in the intervals of ...
... individuals : but the distinction has always been recognized in France . In the time of Louis XIII the style of gallantry seemed to incline again to the metaphysics and pedantry of an earlier age . Cardinal Richelieu in the intervals of ...
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... individuals who treat of them- selves , as well as others , with a frankness not less extraordinary than the conduct to which it relates . In what follows on the reign of Louis XIV , we take considerable advantage of Mr. Thomas's work ...
... individuals who treat of them- selves , as well as others , with a frankness not less extraordinary than the conduct to which it relates . In what follows on the reign of Louis XIV , we take considerable advantage of Mr. Thomas's work ...
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... individuals by playing striking roles : are we to conclude that this difference would of itself be sufficient to prove them inferior to French- women in real powers of mind and genuine affections ? The reader who , in the course of our ...
... individuals by playing striking roles : are we to conclude that this difference would of itself be sufficient to prove them inferior to French- women in real powers of mind and genuine affections ? The reader who , in the course of our ...
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Seite 212 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.
Seite 382 - Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
Seite 309 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Seite 428 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Seite 22 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Seite 15 - My hopes of being remembered in my line With my land's language. If too fond and far These aspirations in their scope incline — If my fame should be, as my fortunes are, Of hasty growth and blight, and dull Oblivion bar...
Seite 20 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Seite 19 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Seite 30 - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," as a proof that the Coliseum was entire, when seen by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth century. A notice on the Coliseum may be seen in the " Historical Illustrations,
Seite 371 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.