Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volum 2Richard Bentley, 1868 |
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... , but many had written better ; he was a speaker , but many had spoken better ; he was a philosopher , but many had done far more for philosophy ; and yet , though it was difficult to fix on any one thing in which he B 2 MACKINTOSH, ...
... , but many had written better ; he was a speaker , but many had spoken better ; he was a philosopher , but many had done far more for philosophy ; and yet , though it was difficult to fix on any one thing in which he B 2 MACKINTOSH, ...
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... thing they have done than according to a vague notion of what they are capable of doing . Mackintosh may be taken as a type of this class ; not that he passed his life in the learned inac- tivity to which the resident members of our own ...
... thing they have done than according to a vague notion of what they are capable of doing . Mackintosh may be taken as a type of this class ; not that he passed his life in the learned inac- tivity to which the resident members of our own ...
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... lead in public affairs . In society , however , the mere faculty of remembering and comprehending a variety of things is quite sufficient to obtain a consider- able reputation ; whilst the world , when indulgent , THE MAN OF PROMISE . 5.
... lead in public affairs . In society , however , the mere faculty of remembering and comprehending a variety of things is quite sufficient to obtain a consider- able reputation ; whilst the world , when indulgent , THE MAN OF PROMISE . 5.
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... thing . In the evening he would go now and then to a spouting club and make speeches , while the greater part of his mornings was spent in poetical lucubrations . To the medical profession he paid little attention , till all of a sudden ...
... thing . In the evening he would go now and then to a spouting club and make speeches , while the greater part of his mornings was spent in poetical lucubrations . To the medical profession he paid little attention , till all of a sudden ...
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... thing like a practical foundation for subsequent legislative improvement . To himself , however , this distant scene seems to have possessed no interest , to have procured no ad- vantage . Worn by the climate , wearied by a series of ...
... thing like a practical foundation for subsequent legislative improvement . To himself , however , this distant scene seems to have possessed no interest , to have procured no ad- vantage . Worn by the climate , wearied by a series of ...
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Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volum 2 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volum 2 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volum 2 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
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Side 420 - In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent.
Side 77 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Side 222 - 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 222 - 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 259 - 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 338 - ... 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 its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of...
Side 109 - 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. I found that I must go to Richmond, and I, accordingly, went on from place to place inquiring my way thither.
Side 351 - It was only on last Friday night that this precise information arrived. On Saturday His Majesty's confidential servants came to a decision. On Sunday that decision received the sanction of His Majesty. On Monday it was communicated to both Houses of Parliament, and this day, Sir, at the hour in which I have the honour of addressing you, the troops are on their march for embarkation.