Essays, moral and political, Volum 2J. Murray, 1832 |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 50
Side 20
... Look through the whole writings of my youth , including if you please Wat Tyler ; ' there can be no danger that its errors should infect a gentleman who has · called upon the attorney - general to prosecute the author 20 A LETTER TO.
... Look through the whole writings of my youth , including if you please Wat Tyler ; ' there can be no danger that its errors should infect a gentleman who has · called upon the attorney - general to prosecute the author 20 A LETTER TO.
Side 36
... look on as indifferent observers . By the fundamental laws of England every man is bound to bear arms against an invading enemy ; and when worse dan- gers than invasion are designed and threatened , it becomes the duty of all those who ...
... look on as indifferent observers . By the fundamental laws of England every man is bound to bear arms against an invading enemy ; and when worse dan- gers than invasion are designed and threatened , it becomes the duty of all those who ...
Side 41
... look back upon the demagogues who in other generations strutted their hour as lords of the ascendant , and were drawn in triumph by the deluded populace through the streets of London ! Such a retrospect , beginning with Titus Oates and ...
... look back upon the demagogues who in other generations strutted their hour as lords of the ascendant , and were drawn in triumph by the deluded populace through the streets of London ! Such a retrospect , beginning with Titus Oates and ...
Side 42
... look for assist- ance from the inhabitants of the tombs : ' but , alas for the multitude ! the experience of their fathers is buried with them , and the lessons of history , dearly as they have been purchased , are for them in vain ...
... look for assist- ance from the inhabitants of the tombs : ' but , alas for the multitude ! the experience of their fathers is buried with them , and the lessons of history , dearly as they have been purchased , are for them in vain ...
Side 52
... looks as if he resolved to draw the ship to him ; but the truth and his meaning is , to draw himself to the ship , where he gets in ' when he can , and does like the rest of the crew when he is there . ' How often has this happy ...
... looks as if he resolved to draw the ship to him ; but the truth and his meaning is , to draw himself to the ship , where he gets in ' when he can , and does like the rest of the crew when he is there . ' How often has this happy ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
better bishops British brought called Catholic Emancipation cause character Church circumstances clergy condition consequences danger declared degree desire duty effect England English established evil existing faith favour feeling France French revolution Gallican Church heart honour hope House human increase Ireland Irish Jacobine justice king kingdom labour land legislature less liberty look Lord Byron manufactures means measure ment mind miserable moral nation nature necessary never oath object opinions parents parish parliament party pauperism perhaps persecution persons political Poor Laws Pope population present priests principle produced prosperity Protestant question racter reason reform religion religious ROBERT SOUTHEY Roman Catholic Romish Satanic School says sedition Sir Robert Inglis society Socinianism Southey sovereign spirit suffered suppose thing thought tion tithes titular bishops toleration wages Wat Tyler whole William Smith words writer
Populære avsnitt
Side 369 - I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Protestant Government, in the United Kingdom...
Side 102 - The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. 1 3 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Side 400 - IN elect of the Church of N. from henceforward will be faithful and obedient to St Peter the Apostle,, and to the holy Roman Church, and to our lord, the lord N. Pope N. and to his successors, canonically coming in.
Side 20 - ... with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, and therefore they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England.
Side 321 - ... destiny of that land, that no purposes whatsoever which are meant for her good, will prosper or take good effect : which, whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil or influence of the stars, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation, or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still, for some secret scourge, which shall by her come unto England, it is hard to be known, but yet much to be feared.
Side 381 - ... few men have done more harm than those who have been thought to be able to do least ; and there cannot be a greater error, than to believe a man, whom we see qualified with too mean parts to do good, to be therefore incapable of doing hurt. There is a supply of malice, of pride, of industry, and even of folly, in the weakest, when he sets his heart upon it, that makes a strange progress in mischief.
Side 186 - The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults; these are but the receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on the shore, while the great tide is still rolling on and gaining ground with every breaker.
Side 285 - opinion of the Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland, that it is inexpedient " to introduce any alteration in the canonical mode hitherto observed " in the nomination of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, which mode " long experience has proved to be unexceptionable, wise, and salutary.
Side 13 - In my youth, when my stock of knowledge consisted of such an acquaintance with Greek and Roman history as is acquired in the course of a regular scholastic education, when my heart was full of poetry and romance, and Lucan and Akenside were at my tongue's end...
Side 371 - I do swear that I will defend to the utmost of my power the settlement of property within this realm as established by the laws : And I do hereby disclaim, disavow and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by law within this realm...