Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 sider |
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Side 128
... crown - not a single family in Europe whose blood is acknowledged to be royal - but traces its genealogy to that Norman colossus , WILLIAM the CONQUEROR . This has been elaborately shown by M. Paulmier ; * but I may add , as a curiosity ...
... crown - not a single family in Europe whose blood is acknowledged to be royal - but traces its genealogy to that Norman colossus , WILLIAM the CONQUEROR . This has been elaborately shown by M. Paulmier ; * but I may add , as a curiosity ...
Side 164
... Crown , -forgetful that its civil and military establishments rival those of the greatest European Power , and that in amount of population it is equalled by no empire in the world save the monster - fabric of China . In our ordinary ...
... Crown , -forgetful that its civil and military establishments rival those of the greatest European Power , and that in amount of population it is equalled by no empire in the world save the monster - fabric of China . In our ordinary ...
Side 242
... crown became hereditary ) , the extent of the imperial dominions depended upon the talent of individual rulers and the fortune of war . The last monarch of each of the two first dynasties was dethroned by the people , whom their crimes ...
... crown became hereditary ) , the extent of the imperial dominions depended upon the talent of individual rulers and the fortune of war . The last monarch of each of the two first dynasties was dethroned by the people , whom their crimes ...
Side 245
... crown , contended for by his generals , at length fell to the lot of Leou - pang , who founded the celebrated dynasty of Han . In the case of this great Chinese monarch , as in the case of Alexander , Charle- magne , and Napoleon , we ...
... crown , contended for by his generals , at length fell to the lot of Leou - pang , who founded the celebrated dynasty of Han . In the case of this great Chinese monarch , as in the case of Alexander , Charle- magne , and Napoleon , we ...
Side 311
... crown the distant hills are crumbling to pieces , and apparently are seldom repaired ; the spacious temples are no longer as they used to be in former days ; even the celebrated temples on Poo - too - San ( an island near Chusan ) , to ...
... crown the distant hills are crumbling to pieces , and apparently are seldom repaired ; the spacious temples are no longer as they used to be in former days ; even the celebrated temples on Poo - too - San ( an island near Chusan ) , to ...
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Side 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Side 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.