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... common freemen . Those of the higher order were distinguished by their noble birth , which they traced to a divine origin , and by their superior wealth , which enabled them to undertake numerous adven- tures , and increase their fame ...
... common freemen . Those of the higher order were distinguished by their noble birth , which they traced to a divine origin , and by their superior wealth , which enabled them to undertake numerous adven- tures , and increase their fame ...
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... common divided by the road ; the right side fringed by hedgerows and trees , with cottages and farmhouses irregularly placed , and terminated by a double avenue of noble oaks ; the left prettier still , dappled by bright pools of water ...
... common divided by the road ; the right side fringed by hedgerows and trees , with cottages and farmhouses irregularly placed , and terminated by a double avenue of noble oaks ; the left prettier still , dappled by bright pools of water ...
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... common to young men , that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much . When a smart fit of sickness tells me this empty tenement of my body will fall in a little time , I am even as unconcerned as was that honest ...
... common to young men , that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much . When a smart fit of sickness tells me this empty tenement of my body will fall in a little time , I am even as unconcerned as was that honest ...
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... common people may understand and the learned admire him . LVI . To the surprise and admiration of the court , he now issued forth from his seclusion a comely and accomplished gentle- man ; deeply versed in the literature of the age ...
... common people may understand and the learned admire him . LVI . To the surprise and admiration of the court , he now issued forth from his seclusion a comely and accomplished gentle- man ; deeply versed in the literature of the age ...
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... common to men in all stages of society , and which have alike agitated the human heart , whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century , the brocaded coat of the eighteenth , or the blue frock and white dimity ...
... common to men in all stages of society , and which have alike agitated the human heart , whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century , the brocaded coat of the eighteenth , or the blue frock and white dimity ...
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Seite 65 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Seite 64 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Seite 65 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Seite 35 - The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
Seite 52 - His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man.
Seite 15 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.
Seite 14 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
Seite 107 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Seite 21 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.
Seite 65 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.