Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, CanningBernhard Tauchnitz, 1868 |
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... never play the greatest part amongst their contemporaries : they almost always play a great one ; and , without arriving at those extraordinary positions to which a more ad- venturous race aspires , generally retain considerable ...
... never play the greatest part amongst their contemporaries : they almost always play a great one ; and , without arriving at those extraordinary positions to which a more ad- venturous race aspires , generally retain considerable ...
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... Seven Years ' War , and rose to be lieutenant - general in the King's armies . He bore an excellent character , but was never considered to have any ability . - From this moment the boy - hitherto lively , THE POLITIC MAN . 15.
... Seven Years ' War , and rose to be lieutenant - general in the King's armies . He bore an excellent character , but was never considered to have any ability . - From this moment the boy - hitherto lively , THE POLITIC MAN . 15.
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... never did more than the necessity of the case exacted ; we see traces of recklessness in the gambler and politician who , after a shrewd glance at the chances , was often disposed to risk his fortune , or his career , on a speculation ...
... never did more than the necessity of the case exacted ; we see traces of recklessness in the gambler and politician who , after a shrewd glance at the chances , was often disposed to risk his fortune , or his career , on a speculation ...
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... never been surpassed . Rich manufactures of silk , exquisite chisel- ing in bronze , china equally beautiful in form and decoration , and paintings somewhat effeminate , but grace- ful , and which still give celebrity to the names of ...
... never been surpassed . Rich manufactures of silk , exquisite chisel- ing in bronze , china equally beautiful in form and decoration , and paintings somewhat effeminate , but grace- ful , and which still give celebrity to the names of ...
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... never to be for- gotten that the personage I have to speak of was their child . To the latest hour of his existence he fondly cherished their memory ; to them he owed many of those graces which his friends still delight to recall : to ...
... never to be for- gotten that the personage I have to speak of was their child . To the latest hour of his existence he fondly cherished their memory ; to them he owed many of those graces which his friends still delight to recall : to ...
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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...