Short Sayings of Great Men: With Historical and Explanatory NotesJ. R. Osgood, 1882 - 610 стор. |
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... history have uttered , generally without premeditation , yet stamped with the seal of immortality , the question is ... history repeats itself . Many of them adorn the page of the historian , giving to narrative its local color , and ...
... history have uttered , generally without premeditation , yet stamped with the seal of immortality , the question is ... history repeats itself . Many of them adorn the page of the historian , giving to narrative its local color , and ...
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With Historical and Explanatory Notes Samuel Arthur Bent. suffer . The weeds and vines which gave a parasitic charm to ... History . " In collecting true and notable sayings , and happy thoughts flashed in the heat of controversy or the ...
With Historical and Explanatory Notes Samuel Arthur Bent. suffer . The weeds and vines which gave a parasitic charm to ... History . " In collecting true and notable sayings , and happy thoughts flashed in the heat of controversy or the ...
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With Historical and Explanatory Notes Samuel Arthur Bent. In a letter to Mrs. Adams , July 3 , 1776 , Mr. Adams spoke of the ... history of America . I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great ...
With Historical and Explanatory Notes Samuel Arthur Bent. In a letter to Mrs. Adams , July 3 , 1776 , Mr. Adams spoke of the ... history of America . I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great ...
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With Historical and Explanatory Notes Samuel Arthur Bent. it was from fear : I will not expose myself to such reproaches . " - LINGARD : History of England , X. , chap . 5 . Bailly handed , as mayor , the keys of Paris to Louis XVI ...
With Historical and Explanatory Notes Samuel Arthur Bent. it was from fear : I will not expose myself to such reproaches . " - LINGARD : History of England , X. , chap . 5 . Bailly handed , as mayor , the keys of Paris to Louis XVI ...
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With Historical and Explanatory Notes Samuel Arthur Bent. what Saint - Just repeated in public in 1794 , " The ship of ... history ( Vous êtes appelés à recommencer l'histoire ) .— MARTIN : Histoire de France , XVI . end . ANTOINE BARNAVE ...
With Historical and Explanatory Notes Samuel Arthur Bent. what Saint - Just repeated in public in 1794 , " The ship of ... history ( Vous êtes appelés à recommencer l'histoire ) .— MARTIN : Histoire de France , XVI . end . ANTOINE BARNAVE ...
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Сторінка 198 - Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Сторінка 439 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Сторінка 167 - I came one morning into the House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and' not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his...
Сторінка 504 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Сторінка 370 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Сторінка 479 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Сторінка 2 - The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of america i am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival it ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to god almighty it ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade with shows games sports guns bells bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward for evermore.
Сторінка 293 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
Сторінка 532 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Сторінка 328 - Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.