Littell's Living Age, Volumen254Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1907 |
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... human capital , in unsuc- cessful attempts to restore her finances and to compel Great Britain to cease from capturing private property at sea . Recall Metternich's words to him in 1813 : " Sire , I have seen your soldiers ; they are ...
... human capital , in unsuc- cessful attempts to restore her finances and to compel Great Britain to cease from capturing private property at sea . Recall Metternich's words to him in 1813 : " Sire , I have seen your soldiers ; they are ...
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... human nature , on life and its conduct , almost interchangeable with those of Mrs. Delany . I have taken Mrs. Delany as an ex- ample in chief because of all the women of her period she presents us with perhaps at once the widest and ...
... human nature , on life and its conduct , almost interchangeable with those of Mrs. Delany . I have taken Mrs. Delany as an ex- ample in chief because of all the women of her period she presents us with perhaps at once the widest and ...
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... human body consists of five- sixths of its weight in fluid - indeed we might say of pure water , as it is possi- ble to convert it into this element - and on the maintaining of the balance of fluid in the body depends in a great measure ...
... human body consists of five- sixths of its weight in fluid - indeed we might say of pure water , as it is possi- ble to convert it into this element - and on the maintaining of the balance of fluid in the body depends in a great measure ...
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... human nature has not altered in three hundred years , nor will it in a thousand more . Thousands will prob- ably read these lines . Some will prom- ise themselves to profit by the advice given , and then break the promise ; the majority ...
... human nature has not altered in three hundred years , nor will it in a thousand more . Thousands will prob- ably read these lines . Some will prom- ise themselves to profit by the advice given , and then break the promise ; the majority ...
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... human . And that is because no one else has rendered , with so deep a truth , with so beautiful a fidelity , all that is passionate and desperate and an ecstatic agony in this tragic love which glorifies and destroys Juliet . In Hamlet ...
... human . And that is because no one else has rendered , with so deep a truth , with so beautiful a fidelity , all that is passionate and desperate and an ecstatic agony in this tragic love which glorifies and destroys Juliet . In Hamlet ...
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Página 573 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 148 - ... the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Página 147 - I thence walked with him through St. James's Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between * * * and Mrs. Nelly, as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and * * * standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene. Thence the King walked to the Duchess of Cleveland, another lady » of pleasure, and curse of our nation.
Página 148 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and...
Página 526 - That the natural effect of competition is to increase commerce, and an agreement whose direct effect is to prevent this play of competition restrains instead of promotes trade and commerce...
Página 709 - Mrs. Gaskell has done what neither I nor other female writers in France can accomplish she has written novels which excite the deepest interest in men of the world, and yet which every girl will be the better for reading.'— GEORGE SAND.
Página 445 - For the mind and memory are more sharply exercised in comprehending another man's things than our own; and such as accustom themselves, and are familiar with the best authors, shall ever and anon find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feel it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an authority above their own.
Página 36 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 526 - States, it does embrace and declare to be illegal every contract, combination or conspiracy, in whatever form, of whatever nature, and whoever may be parties to it, which directly or necessarily operates in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States...
Página 463 - And the light-hearted race of birds, and the tribes of savage beasts, and the sea-brood of the deep, he snares in the meshes of his woven toils, he leads captive, man excellent in wit. And he masters by his arts the beast whose lair is in the wilds, who roams the hills; he tames the horse of shaggy mane, he puts the yoke upon its neck, he tames the tireless mountain bull.