Modern Statesmen, Or Sketches from the Strangers' Gallery of the House of CommonsWilliam Tweedie, 337, Strand, 1861 - 300 стор. |
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... laugh . On being asked the cause , ' Truly , ' he said , ' I laughed to think that God should have trusted the spiritual go- vernment of the world to a drunken priest like Pope Julius , and the government of the empire to a chamois ...
... laugh . On being asked the cause , ' Truly , ' he said , ' I laughed to think that God should have trusted the spiritual go- vernment of the world to a drunken priest like Pope Julius , and the government of the empire to a chamois ...
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James Ewing Ritchie. His Palmerston was a man possibly to be laughed at for his juvenile airs , but certainly not to be despised ; but the outside multitude- " the people , the only source of political power " -had no other idea of ...
James Ewing Ritchie. His Palmerston was a man possibly to be laughed at for his juvenile airs , but certainly not to be despised ; but the outside multitude- " the people , the only source of political power " -had no other idea of ...
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... laugh at . What must he think of popular M.P.'s who charge him with treason , and yet dare not vote against him for fear of damaging the shop ? It cannot be that such a one is the nonentity so flippantly portrayed by Mr Grant ; the ...
... laugh at . What must he think of popular M.P.'s who charge him with treason , and yet dare not vote against him for fear of damaging the shop ? It cannot be that such a one is the nonentity so flippantly portrayed by Mr Grant ; the ...
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... laugh , and the questioner , somehow or other , feels he has done something very foolish , though he scarce knows what . Your expecta- tions are heightened . Very naturally you imagine that as the evening passes on , and the excitement ...
... laugh , and the questioner , somehow or other , feels he has done something very foolish , though he scarce knows what . Your expecta- tions are heightened . Very naturally you imagine that as the evening passes on , and the excitement ...
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... laughing , and talking , is a little hushed . He commences ; it is an important question he has to answer , or an important declaration he has to make , and you may hear a pin drop . You hear a weak voice hammering and stammering at ...
... laughing , and talking , is a little hushed . He commences ; it is an important question he has to answer , or an important declaration he has to make , and you may hear a pin drop . You hear a weak voice hammering and stammering at ...
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Сторінка 89 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Сторінка 188 - Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never has known the Barber's shear All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year.
Сторінка 65 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Сторінка 288 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Сторінка 243 - It was impossible that he could have marked them without emotion : the flower of that great party which had been so proud to follow one who had been so proud to lead them. They were men to gain whose hearts and the hearts of their fathers had been the aim and exultation of his life. They had extended to him an unlimited confidence and an admiration without stint. They had...
Сторінка 18 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Сторінка 162 - Dulness o'er all possess'd her ancient right, Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night : Fate in their dotage this fair idiot gave, Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind.
Сторінка 7 - What is it to me," he said on another occasion, "who is made a judge or who is a bishop? It is my business to make kings and emperors, and to maintain the balance of Europe.
Сторінка 73 - There was something very remarkable in his countenance — the commandments were written on his face, and I have often told him there was not a crime he might not commit with impunity, as no judge or jury who saw him, would give the smallest degree of credit to any evidence against him: there was in his look a calm settled love of all that was honourable and good — an air of wisdom and of sweetness; you saw at once that he was a great man, whom nature had intended for a leader of human beings;...
Сторінка 153 - But now the whole ROUND TABLE is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world; And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.