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... never been prepared for these trifles by prefaces , biassed by recommendations , dazzled with the names of great patrons , wheedled with fine reasons and pretences , or troubled with excuses . I confess it was want of consideration that ...
... never been prepared for these trifles by prefaces , biassed by recommendations , dazzled with the names of great patrons , wheedled with fine reasons and pretences , or troubled with excuses . I confess it was want of consideration that ...
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... never possessed in a more eminent degree , or displayed in so different instances . Yet all along , there is seen no labour , no pains to raise them ; no preparation to guide our guess to the effect , or be perceived to lead toward it ...
... never possessed in a more eminent degree , or displayed in so different instances . Yet all along , there is seen no labour , no pains to raise them ; no preparation to guide our guess to the effect , or be perceived to lead toward it ...
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... never so much as heard of amongst them , and naturally inspiring a laziness and aversion to labour , which the great plenty indulges . These gardeners are the only happy race of country people in Turkey . They furnish all the 18 LADY ...
... never so much as heard of amongst them , and naturally inspiring a laziness and aversion to labour , which the great plenty indulges . These gardeners are the only happy race of country people in Turkey . They furnish all the 18 LADY ...
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... never appear , and at the same time in- capacitating her for that retirement , to which she is destined . Learning , if she has a real taste for it , will not only make her contented , but happy in it . No entertainment is so cheap as ...
... never appear , and at the same time in- capacitating her for that retirement , to which she is destined . Learning , if she has a real taste for it , will not only make her contented , but happy in it . No entertainment is so cheap as ...
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... never straining at effect , and yet never hurried into carelessness . They have incurred just repre- hension on two grounds — that they insist too much on manners and graces instead of on more solid acquirements , and that some of their ...
... never straining at effect , and yet never hurried into carelessness . They have incurred just repre- hension on two grounds — that they insist too much on manners and graces instead of on more solid acquirements , and that some of their ...
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Página 192 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Página 454 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Página 188 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Página 196 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Página 76 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Página 195 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
Página 451 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 461 - ... with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Página 455 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.