The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand - bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of sound mind , was of opinion that Sir Samuel Romilly was the most proper person to represent Westminster ; but this was the whim of the ...
... party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand - bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of sound mind , was of opinion that Sir Samuel Romilly was the most proper person to represent Westminster ; but this was the whim of the ...
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... parties ! They are quite a different species , and speak a different lan- guage , and are sadly at a loss for a common inter- preter between them . Perhaps the Ordinary of New- gate bids as fair for this office as any one . What should ...
... parties ! They are quite a different species , and speak a different lan- guage , and are sadly at a loss for a common inter- preter between them . Perhaps the Ordinary of New- gate bids as fair for this office as any one . What should ...
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... party in the State , he has no train of admirers , no one thinks it worth his while even to traduce and vilify him , he has scarcely friend or foe , the world make a point ( as Goldsmith used to say ) of taking no more notice of him ...
... party in the State , he has no train of admirers , no one thinks it worth his while even to traduce and vilify him , he has scarcely friend or foe , the world make a point ( as Goldsmith used to say ) of taking no more notice of him ...
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... party , or per- sonal ties , but by the abstract merits , the pure and unbiassed justice of the case . The artificial helps and checks to moral conduct were set aside as spu- * Shaftesbury made this an objection to Christianity , which ...
... party , or per- sonal ties , but by the abstract merits , the pure and unbiassed justice of the case . The artificial helps and checks to moral conduct were set aside as spu- * Shaftesbury made this an objection to Christianity , which ...
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... conversation , an expert public speaker , a keen politician , a first - rate grammarian , and the finest gentleman ( to say the least ) of his own party . He had no imagination ( or he would not have scorned it ! ) - no F 2.
... conversation , an expert public speaker , a keen politician , a first - rate grammarian , and the finest gentleman ( to say the least ) of his own party . He had no imagination ( or he would not have scorned it ! ) - no F 2.
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Сторінка 143 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Сторінка 362 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Сторінка 58 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Сторінка 398 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Сторінка 262 - Out went the taper as she hurried in ; Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died: She closed the door, she panted, all akin To spirits of the air, and visions wide : No uttered syllable, or, woe betide...
Сторінка 363 - The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!
Сторінка 382 - Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And like a glory the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Сторінка 191 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Сторінка 145 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
Сторінка 383 - ... gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm West,— as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.