Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, CanningBernhard Tauchnitz, 1868 |
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... important an influence over the age in which they appear , must possess , in no ordinary degree , intelligence , energy , and judgment ; but these qualities are found blended in different degrees in the different classes or types of men ...
... important an influence over the age in which they appear , must possess , in no ordinary degree , intelligence , energy , and judgment ; but these qualities are found blended in different degrees in the different classes or types of men ...
Side 11
... importance , even during the most changeful circum- stances , and most commonly preserve in retirement or disgrace much of the consideration they acquired in power . During the intriguing and agitated years which preceded the fall of ...
... importance , even during the most changeful circum- stances , and most commonly preserve in retirement or disgrace much of the consideration they acquired in power . During the intriguing and agitated years which preceded the fall of ...
Side 12
... importance of the parts which for more than half a century he played , I venture to doubt whether his character has ever been fairly given , or is at this moment justly ap- preciated ; nor is this altogether surprising . In a life so ...
... importance of the parts which for more than half a century he played , I venture to doubt whether his character has ever been fairly given , or is at this moment justly ap- preciated ; nor is this altogether surprising . In a life so ...
Side 18
... important personage who administered the ecclesiastical revenues , which were then immense , under the control of regular assemblies . It is a curious trait in the manners of these times that , whilst holding this high post as a priest ...
... important personage who administered the ecclesiastical revenues , which were then immense , under the control of regular assemblies . It is a curious trait in the manners of these times that , whilst holding this high post as a priest ...
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... importance chosen by the influence of Marie - Antoinette's friends . He saw that the expenses and receipts of the government must bear some proportion to each other . He trembled at suddenly reducing old charges ; new taxes were the ...
... importance chosen by the influence of Marie - Antoinette's friends . He saw that the expenses and receipts of the government must bear some proportion to each other . He trembled at suddenly reducing old charges ; new taxes were the ...
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Side 174 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage, how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and all its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Side 90 - Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order, — Bleak blows the blast ; your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches ! " Weary Knife-grinder ! little think the proud ones, Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeRoad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, ' Knives and Scissors to grind O ! ' " Tell me, Knife-grinder, how came you to grind knives?
Side 91 - Was it the squire for killing of his game? or Covetous parson for his tithes distraining? Or roguish lawyer made you lose your little All in a lawsuit? (Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Side 105 - I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, the reason why I cannot tell, But this I know and know full well, I do not love thee, Dr. Fell...
Side 91 - Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir, Only last night a-drinking at the " Chequers," This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. Constables came up for to take me into Custody ; they took me before the justice ; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parishstocks for a vagrant.
Side 117 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Side 62 - Ancient learning, exact science, polished society, modern literature, and the fine arts, contributed to adorn and enrich the mind of this accomplished man. All his contemporaries agreed with the satirist in ascribing '' To Berkeley every virtue under heaven.
Side 88 - I had always been fond of beautiful gardens ; and a gardener, who had just come from the king's gardens at Kew, gave such a description of them as made me instantly resolve to work in these gardens. The next morning, without saying a word to any one, off I set, with no clothes, except those upon my back, and with thirteen halfpence in my pocket.
Side 50 - The opening of the birch leaves is the signal for the pheasant to begin to crow, for the blackbird to whistle, and the thrush to sing; and just when the oak-buds begin to look reddish, and not a day before, the whole tribe of finches burst forth in songs from every bough, while the lark, imitating them all, carries the joyous sounds to the sky.
Side 64 - the truth about innate ideas may be, that there are properly no ideas or passive objects in the mind but what are derived from sense, but that there are also, besides these, her own acts and operations — such are notions...