Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy: From Roman Times to Voltaire, Rousseau, and Gibbon, Volumen2Chatto & Windus, 1897 - 31 páginas |
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Página 330 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son l ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Página 330 - I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house.
Página 208 - Lord, received the letter which you have done me the honour to write to me on the subject of the note which I sentyouyesterday, the 24-th instant.
Página 330 - In a calm retirement the gay vanity of youth no longer fluttered in her bosom; she listened to the voice of truth and passion ; and I might presume to hope that I had made some impression on a virtuous heart.
Página 260 - A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men.
Página 385 - Auderet, volvenda diet, en attulit ultro.Yesterday morning, about half an hour after seven, as I was destroying an army of barbarians, I heard a double rap at the door, and my friend Mr Eliot was soon introduced. After some idle conversation he told me that, if I was desirous of being in parliament, he had an independent seat very much at my service.
Página 328 - I hesitate, from the apprehension of ridicule, when I approach the delicate subject of my early love. By this word I do not mean the polite attention, the gallantry, without hope or design, which has originated in the spirit of chivalry, and is interwoven with the texture of French manners.
Página 260 - ... me, and perhaps with justice, to the imputation of vanity. I may judge, however, from the experience both of past and of the present times, that the public are always curious to know the men, who have left behind them any image of their minds...
Página 230 - And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost part of the house : — " Is there yet any with thee?
Página 286 - He that buildeth his house with other men's money is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.