Essays from the Times: Being a Selection from the Literary Papers which Have Appeared in that JournalJohn Murray, 1851 - 310 стор. |
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... moral tone are so well calculated to assist in the important national object advocated by the great organ of public opinion . Railway readers and others will not be sorry to possess , in a permanent form , a selection from the admirable ...
... moral tone are so well calculated to assist in the important national object advocated by the great organ of public opinion . Railway readers and others will not be sorry to possess , in a permanent form , a selection from the admirable ...
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... moral nature , the bright sun had still its disfiguring spot . Humility , the essential lesson in our passage through time to eternity , is never so effectually taught as when the most illustrious present themselves to the most abject ...
... moral nature , the bright sun had still its disfiguring spot . Humility , the essential lesson in our passage through time to eternity , is never so effectually taught as when the most illustrious present themselves to the most abject ...
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... moral perceptions as happily as he improved her mental endowments , he might have lost a mistress , but he would have spared the world much shame , and the woman he professed to love infinite degradation , and long and unavailing sorrow ...
... moral perceptions as happily as he improved her mental endowments , he might have lost a mistress , but he would have spared the world much shame , and the woman he professed to love infinite degradation , and long and unavailing sorrow ...
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... moral . An English lady in Calais was in the habit of ordering meat daily for a favourite dog . She was met on one occasion at the butcher's shop by the English interpreter . " Ah , madame , madame , " said M. de Rheims , " I know you ...
... moral . An English lady in Calais was in the habit of ordering meat daily for a favourite dog . She was met on one occasion at the butcher's shop by the English interpreter . " Ah , madame , madame , " said M. de Rheims , " I know you ...
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... Graham is certainly as admirable an instance of the vice in order to counteract which the book was expressly written as it is possible to place in the hands of the young . The moral of " Railway Speculation " has yet to.
... Graham is certainly as admirable an instance of the vice in order to counteract which the book was expressly written as it is possible to place in the hands of the young . The moral of " Railway Speculation " has yet to.
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Сторінка 126 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I...
Сторінка 263 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Сторінка 28 - Could I have rewarded these services I would not now call upon my country ; but as that has not been in my power, I leave Emma, Lady Hamilton therefore a legacy to my king and country, that they will give her an ample provision to maintain her rank in life.
Сторінка 269 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Сторінка 145 - ... most timid writer or artist, who found himself for the first time among Ambassadors and Earls. They will remember that constant flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, so various, so rich with observation and anecdote ; that wit which never gave a wound ; that exquisite mimicry which ennobled, instead of degrading...
Сторінка 28 - Then in sight of the combined fleets of France and Spain, distant about ten miles. " Whereas the eminent services of Emma Hamilton, widow of the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, have been of the very greatest service to my king and country, to my knowledge, without ever receiving any reward from either our king or country.
Сторінка 29 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." "I hope," said Nelson, "none of our ships have struck ? ' ' Hardy answered, '
Сторінка 272 - Grote the compliment which he pays to others, "the poets, historians, orators, and philosophers of Greece, have been all rendered both more intelligible and more instructive to the student, and the general picture of the Grecian world may now be conceived with a degree of fidelity which, considering our imperfect materials, it is curious to contemplate.
Сторінка 194 - To Jeffrey as an individual I shall ever be ready to show every kind of individual courtesy; but of Judge Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review I must ever think and speak as of a bad politician, a worse moralist, and a critic, in matters of taste, equally incompetent and unjust.
Сторінка 23 - I hope some day to have the pleasure of introducing you to Lady Hamilton, she is one of the very best women in the world ; she is an honour to her sex.