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Side 5
... popular language the Tartar ) stock which we have already mentioned . Whether the Basques are also Tura- nian is a question on which I shall have something to say by and bye . But some ethnologists , particularly in Denmark , have ...
... popular language the Tartar ) stock which we have already mentioned . Whether the Basques are also Tura- nian is a question on which I shall have something to say by and bye . But some ethnologists , particularly in Denmark , have ...
Side 47
... popularity , his rashness , his magnanimity , would have been natural in a land- owner , who had annexed some body else's estate and was anxious to win the confidence of his tenants , but were utterly at variance with that kingly ...
... popularity , his rashness , his magnanimity , would have been natural in a land- owner , who had annexed some body else's estate and was anxious to win the confidence of his tenants , but were utterly at variance with that kingly ...
Side 54
Birmingham historical society. ostentatious . But his success as a general and his popularity as a comrade blinded his ... popular sovereign . Like Charles I. he came to the throne among all the difficulties of a transition period . The ...
Birmingham historical society. ostentatious . But his success as a general and his popularity as a comrade blinded his ... popular sovereign . Like Charles I. he came to the throne among all the difficulties of a transition period . The ...
Side 59
... popular applause . It is not given to every great soldier to have the grace of Marlborough , or the stoical self restraint of Wellington . If I have mentioned these foibles , it is because every portrait , like every landscape , should ...
... popular applause . It is not given to every great soldier to have the grace of Marlborough , or the stoical self restraint of Wellington . If I have mentioned these foibles , it is because every portrait , like every landscape , should ...
Side 93
... popular forces outside the house had inspired the use of a word new to the language . The fact may serve as a forcible illustration that Charles felt and rightly felt that his downfall was due in no slight degree to the democratic ...
... popular forces outside the house had inspired the use of a word new to the language . The fact may serve as a forcible illustration that Charles felt and rightly felt that his downfall was due in no slight degree to the democratic ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 68 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Side 73 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Side 35 - 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 75 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Side 51 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what...
Side 80 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Side 65 - While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched...
Side 80 - Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every " man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when the maxim of them of old time still prevailed over every other consideration, — " Thou shalt love u thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.