Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, CanningBernhard Tauchnitz, 1868 |
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... spirit of dissatisfaction and expectation , which a variety of peculiar circumstances tended , at that time , to ex- aggerate in France , but which is in fact the usual char- acteristic of every intellectual community , when neither ...
... spirit of dissatisfaction and expectation , which a variety of peculiar circumstances tended , at that time , to ex- aggerate in France , but which is in fact the usual char- acteristic of every intellectual community , when neither ...
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... spirit of class ; much , if he acts after his own con- ceptions , and remembers that a national assembly only contains citizens . " VIII . Few who read the above sketch will deny to the author of the " Liaisons Dangereuses , " the merit ...
... spirit of class ; much , if he acts after his own con- ceptions , and remembers that a national assembly only contains citizens . " VIII . Few who read the above sketch will deny to the author of the " Liaisons Dangereuses , " the merit ...
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... spirit - hitherto impalpable and invisible- found at once a corporate existence . Monsieur d'Espremenil , and those parliamentary patricians who a year before were in almost open re- bellion against the sovereign , at last saw that they ...
... spirit - hitherto impalpable and invisible- found at once a corporate existence . Monsieur d'Espremenil , and those parliamentary patricians who a year before were in almost open re- bellion against the sovereign , at last saw that they ...
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... spirit of defiance , with the task of at once completing and establishing the constitution which had been promised , and which it had become evident there was no intention to accord . The labour of these statesmen , however , was not ...
... spirit of defiance , with the task of at once completing and establishing the constitution which had been promised , and which it had become evident there was no intention to accord . The labour of these statesmen , however , was not ...
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... spirit , and not to regret that with aspirations so elevated , and abilities so dis- tinguished , they should have failed so deplorably in their efforts to unite liberty with order vigour with moderation . - But Providence seems to have ...
... spirit , and not to regret that with aspirations so elevated , and abilities so dis- tinguished , they should have failed so deplorably in their efforts to unite liberty with order vigour with moderation . - But Providence seems to have ...
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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...