William Pitt. Charles James Fox. Sir James Mackintosh. Lord ErskineCharles Kendall Adams Putnam, 1884 |
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... given were fully justified by the extraordinary progress made by the boy notwithstanding his bodily ailments . He entered the University of Cambridge at fourteen , and such was his scholarship at that time that his tutor wrote : " It is ...
... given were fully justified by the extraordinary progress made by the boy notwithstanding his bodily ailments . He entered the University of Cambridge at fourteen , and such was his scholarship at that time that his tutor wrote : " It is ...
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... given to the classics ; and his method was that to which his father always attributed the extraordinary copiousness and richness of his own language . After looking over a passage so as to become familiar with the author's thought , he ...
... given to the classics ; and his method was that to which his father always attributed the extraordinary copiousness and richness of his own language . After looking over a passage so as to become familiar with the author's thought , he ...
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... given in the House of Commons . Unfortunately it was not re- ported and has not been preserved . But con- temporaneous accounts of the impression it made are abundant . Not only was it received with enthusiastic applause from every part ...
... given in the House of Commons . Unfortunately it was not re- ported and has not been preserved . But con- temporaneous accounts of the impression it made are abundant . Not only was it received with enthusiastic applause from every part ...
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... given that security which , in the former stages of the Rev- olution , was wanting ; or , thirdly , he must be one who , believing that the danger exists , not undervaluing its extent nor mistaking its nature , nevertheless thinks ...
... given that security which , in the former stages of the Rev- olution , was wanting ; or , thirdly , he must be one who , believing that the danger exists , not undervaluing its extent nor mistaking its nature , nevertheless thinks ...
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... given , before Austria and Prussia are supposed to have been thus encouraged to combine in a plan for the partition of France , that plan , if it ever existed at all , had existed and been acted upon for above eight months . France and ...
... given , before Austria and Prussia are supposed to have been thus encouraged to combine in a plan for the partition of France , that plan , if it ever existed at all , had existed and been acted upon for above eight months . France and ...
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Seite 170 - Why is that man expiring ? Why is that other writhing with agony? What means this implacable fury?" The answer must be: "You are quite wrong, sir ; you deceive yourself — they are not fighting — do not disturb them — they are merely pausing! This man is not expiring with agony — that man is not dead — he is only pausing...
Seite 5 - he was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
Seite 289 - Angel last replied. This having learn'd, thou hast attain'd the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in Heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...
Seite 257 - ... satirist on his tyranny to be convicted and punished as a libeller ; and in this court, almost in sight of the scaffold streaming with the blood...
Seite 289 - A virgin is his mother, but his sire The power of the Most High : he shall ascend The throne hereditary, and bound his reign With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
Seite 288 - Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Seite 9 - If, however, the baneful alliance is not already formed, if this ill-omened marriage is not already solemnized, I know a just and lawful impediment, and in the name of the public safety I here forbid the Banns...
Seite 254 - Better, ten thousand times better, would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that we were returned to the honest ignorance of the rudest times, than that the results of civilisation should be made subservient to the purposes of barbarism, than that literature should...
Seite 289 - And all the rule, one empire; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.