William Pitt. Charles James Fox. Sir James Mackintosh. Lord ErskineCharles Kendall Adams Putnam, 1884 |
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... means of execu- tion , as accurately as if they had actually fore- seen the extent to which they have since been able to realize their criminal projects . They sat down coolly to devise the most regular and effectual mode of making the ...
... means of execu- tion , as accurately as if they had actually fore- seen the extent to which they have since been able to realize their criminal projects . They sat down coolly to devise the most regular and effectual mode of making the ...
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... means with which their power and their courage furnished them , and , " attacked upon all sides , they carried everywhere their defensive arms . " 10 * * * Let us look at the conduct of France immedi- ately subsequent to this period ...
... means with which their power and their courage furnished them , and , " attacked upon all sides , they carried everywhere their defensive arms . " 10 * * * Let us look at the conduct of France immedi- ately subsequent to this period ...
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... means , that such miseries could have been brought upon Europe . It is this paradox which we must always keep in mind when we are discussing any question rela- tive to the effects of the French Revolution . Groaning under every degree ...
... means , that such miseries could have been brought upon Europe . It is this paradox which we must always keep in mind when we are discussing any question rela- tive to the effects of the French Revolution . Groaning under every degree ...
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... means of comfort nor almost of subsistence to its own inhabitants ) new and unexampled means of annoyance and destruc- tion against all the other powers of Europe . Its first fundamental principle was to bribe the poor against the rich ...
... means of comfort nor almost of subsistence to its own inhabitants ) new and unexampled means of annoyance and destruc- tion against all the other powers of Europe . Its first fundamental principle was to bribe the poor against the rich ...
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... means of calling forth and supporting a powerful co- operation in Europe . Much more might be said on this part of ... mean the instability of its government , which has been 56 WILLIAM PITT .
... means of calling forth and supporting a powerful co- operation in Europe . Much more might be said on this part of ... mean the instability of its government , which has been 56 WILLIAM PITT .
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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.