Essays from "The Times.": Being a Selection from the Literary Papers which Have Appeared in that Journal, Том 2John Murray, 1871 |
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Сторінка 78
... look could rouse a more popular assembly , and whose words oftener than once had inspired it with the noblest sentiments . It was not in the House of Lords that at this period of his history Lord Mansfield found his most dangerous ...
... look could rouse a more popular assembly , and whose words oftener than once had inspired it with the noblest sentiments . It was not in the House of Lords that at this period of his history Lord Mansfield found his most dangerous ...
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... The iron phrase , the awful menace , the severe enunciation , the direct and bitter onslaught upon untruth , or that which looked like falsehood to the jealous and uncorrupted eye of the stanch friend of freedom , look harsh and terrible ...
... The iron phrase , the awful menace , the severe enunciation , the direct and bitter onslaught upon untruth , or that which looked like falsehood to the jealous and uncorrupted eye of the stanch friend of freedom , look harsh and terrible ...
Сторінка 106
... look harsh and terrible by the side of the gorgeous rhetoric , the lovely illustra- tion , the flashing passages of beauty , the sweet appeals , the winning arguments , that captivate and chain the listener in the pages of the preacher ...
... look harsh and terrible by the side of the gorgeous rhetoric , the lovely illustra- tion , the flashing passages of beauty , the sweet appeals , the winning arguments , that captivate and chain the listener in the pages of the preacher ...
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... look for immediate sympathy and applause ? Or was Bacon reading his essays on the Boulevards , or Raffaelle exhibiting the Transfiguration in Alsatia ? " Peaceful the rise , troubled the noon , but serene and glorious the decline of ...
... look for immediate sympathy and applause ? Or was Bacon reading his essays on the Boulevards , or Raffaelle exhibiting the Transfiguration in Alsatia ? " Peaceful the rise , troubled the noon , but serene and glorious the decline of ...
Сторінка 121
... look pale at the side of the fiery but ferocious achievements of a Rupert or of the successful usurpation of a Cromwell . We may surely search long and industriously through the histories of the world before we come to a counterpart of ...
... look pale at the side of the fiery but ferocious achievements of a Rupert or of the successful usurpation of a Cromwell . We may surely search long and industriously through the histories of the world before we come to a counterpart of ...
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Сторінка 328 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Сторінка 45 - Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house.
Сторінка 116 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven. The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Сторінка 45 - And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, "I have offended ; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear." And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
Сторінка 15 - House, that none therein shall presume henceforth to meddle with anything concerning our government or deep matters of State, and namely not to deal with our dearest son's match with the daughter of Spain...
Сторінка 74 - Parliament in 1783, but his career both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords was in striking contrast with that at the bar.
Сторінка 142 - We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.
Сторінка 5 - Privilege of speech is granted ; but you must know what privilege you have. Not to speak every one what he listeth, or what cometh into his brain to utter that, — but your privilege is Aye or no. Wherefore, Mr Speaker...
Сторінка 46 - Sennacherib, the mighty king, king of the country of Assyria, sitting on the throne of judgment, before (or at the entrance of) the city of Lachish (Lakhisha). I give permission for its slaughter.
Сторінка 5 - Wherefore, Mr. Speaker, her Majesty's Pleasure is, that if you perceive any idle heads, which will not stick to hazard their own Estates ; which will meddle with reforming the Church, and transforming the Commonwealth ; and do exhibit any Bills to such purpose, that you receive them not, until they be viewed and considered by those, who, it is fitter should consider of such things, and can better judge of them.