Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... FRENCH DRAMATIC LITERATURE , 139 PRIVATE LIFE OF VOLTAIRE , 172 THE ART OF BEING HAPPY , 201 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF CANOVA , 234 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH , 283 CICERO ON GOVERNMENT , 338 A DIALOGUE ON GOVERNMENT ; BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND ...
... FRENCH DRAMATIC LITERATURE , 139 PRIVATE LIFE OF VOLTAIRE , 172 THE ART OF BEING HAPPY , 201 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF CANOVA , 234 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH , 283 CICERO ON GOVERNMENT , 338 A DIALOGUE ON GOVERNMENT ; BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND ...
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... French Boswell ; and without going , in regard to her , to the full length of Carlyle's rather extravagant eulogy upon the Johnsoniad , as he calls it , we can say with truth that we hardly know any French literary work of the last ...
... French Boswell ; and without going , in regard to her , to the full length of Carlyle's rather extravagant eulogy upon the Johnsoniad , as he calls it , we can say with truth that we hardly know any French literary work of the last ...
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... French forces , which were stationed at the Isle of Rhé to repulse the attack of the English under the Duke of Buckingham , in 1627. On this occasion he sustained himself heroically for six hours in succession , had three horses killed ...
... French forces , which were stationed at the Isle of Rhé to repulse the attack of the English under the Duke of Buckingham , in 1627. On this occasion he sustained himself heroically for six hours in succession , had three horses killed ...
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... French army in the Campaign of 1675 ; and was pro- ceeding , one day after dinner , to examine from an em- inence the position of the enemy , who were retreating before him . He had with him a large suite , including his nephew , the ...
... French army in the Campaign of 1675 ; and was pro- ceeding , one day after dinner , to examine from an em- inence the position of the enemy , who were retreating before him . He had with him a large suite , including his nephew , the ...
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... French philosophers of the following century , who thought that because St. Denys did not really carry his head under his arm from Paris to his own Abbey , this universal frame must be without a mind , as if there were the most remote ...
... French philosophers of the following century , who thought that because St. Denys did not really carry his head under his arm from Paris to his own Abbey , this universal frame must be without a mind , as if there were the most remote ...
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Сторінка 207 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Сторінка 207 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Сторінка 210 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Сторінка 404 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Сторінка 460 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Сторінка 318 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Сторінка 407 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Сторінка 317 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
Сторінка 241 - Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Сторінка 248 - WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, Britannia's genius bends to earth, And mourns the fatal day : While stain'd with blood he strives to tear Unseemly from his sea-green hair...