Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen3Carey & Hart, 1843 |
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... court , the camp , and the senate - house . In this respect Mr. Fox and Sir James Mackintosh had great advantages over almost every English historian who has written since the time of Burnet . Lord Lyttleton had in- deed the same ...
... court , the camp , and the senate - house . In this respect Mr. Fox and Sir James Mackintosh had great advantages over almost every English historian who has written since the time of Burnet . Lord Lyttleton had in- deed the same ...
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... court of literary justice . His black cap is in constant re- quisition . In the long calendar of those whom he has tried , there is hardly one who has not , in spite of evidence to character and recommendations to mercy , been sen ...
... court of literary justice . His black cap is in constant re- quisition . In the long calendar of those whom he has tried , there is hardly one who has not , in spite of evidence to character and recommendations to mercy , been sen ...
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... court , defeated on its own seas and rivers by a state of far inferior resources , and placed under the rule of panders and buffoons . Our ancestors saw the best and ablest di- vines of the age turned out of their benefices by hundreds ...
... court , defeated on its own seas and rivers by a state of far inferior resources , and placed under the rule of panders and buffoons . Our ancestors saw the best and ablest di- vines of the age turned out of their benefices by hundreds ...
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... Court began to abate as soon as the Court was manifestly unable to offer any re- sistance . The panic which Godfrey's death had excited gradually subsided . Every day brought to light some new falsehood or contradiction in the stories ...
... Court began to abate as soon as the Court was manifestly unable to offer any re- sistance . The panic which Godfrey's death had excited gradually subsided . Every day brought to light some new falsehood or contradiction in the stories ...
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... court . All parts of the kingdom emulously sent up the most extravagant assu- rances of the love which they bore to their sovereign , and of the abhorrence with which they regarded those who questioned the divine origin , or the ...
... court . All parts of the kingdom emulously sent up the most extravagant assu- rances of the love which they bore to their sovereign , and of the abhorrence with which they regarded those who questioned the divine origin , or the ...
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Página 51 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 318 - The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern when compared with the Papacy ; and the republic of Venice is gone, and the Papacy remains. The Papacy remains, not in decay, not a mere antique, but full of life and youthful vigour.
Página 230 - Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit.
Página 400 - Wherever a few great minds have made a stand against violence and fraud, in the cause of liberty and reason, there has been her spirit in the midst of them, inspiring, encouraging, consoling ; by the lonely lamp of Erasmus, by the restless bed of Pascal, in the tribune of Mirabeau, in the cell of Galileo, on the scaffold of Sidney.
Página 397 - Artaxerxes' throne; To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the low-roofed house Of Socrates, see there his tenement, Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced Wisest of men; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe...
Página 70 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Página 409 - Let us, for a moment, transport ourselves, in thought, to that glorious city. Let us imagine that we are entering its gates, in the time of its power and glory. A crowd is assembled round a portico. All are gazing with delight at the entablature, for Phidias is putting up the frieze. We turn into another street; a rhapsodist is reciting there ; men, women, children, are thronging round him : the tears are running down their cheeks ; their eyes are fixed ; their very breath is still; for he is telling...
Página 112 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left to the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow.
Página 318 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
Página 342 - She thoroughly understands, what no other church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. In some sects, particularly in infant sects, enthusiasm is suffered to be rampant. In other sects, particularly in sects long established and richly endowed, it is regarded with aversion. The Catholic Church neither submits to enthusiasm nor proscribes it, but uses it.