The National Review, Volumen12Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1861 |
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... once got re - possession of these old , and probably compromising , documents ( which the lady only intended to show to him ) , was far too shrewd to give them back again ; for we find letters from her in the Souvenirs de Madame ...
... once got re - possession of these old , and probably compromising , documents ( which the lady only intended to show to him ) , was far too shrewd to give them back again ; for we find letters from her in the Souvenirs de Madame ...
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... once a year in force at a great banquet , where some one distinguished for rank or fame is usu- ally selected to preside . In 1822 , when Chateaubriand was am- bassador in England , he was invited to attend this annual dinner , in his ...
... once a year in force at a great banquet , where some one distinguished for rank or fame is usu- ally selected to preside . In 1822 , when Chateaubriand was am- bassador in England , he was invited to attend this annual dinner , in his ...
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... once on the pinnacle of fame . The truth was , that it appeared in the very nick of time . It was published at a moment of reaction . It caught the world on the rebound . * It delighted the most opposed classes , and aided the most ...
... once on the pinnacle of fame . The truth was , that it appeared in the very nick of time . It was published at a moment of reaction . It caught the world on the rebound . * It delighted the most opposed classes , and aided the most ...
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... once rage and bleed , it gave the coup - de - grúce to the falling oppressor ; and by appealing to all the ancient and long- dormant but not extinguished sentiments of loyalty and chivalry which were once so powerful among the French ...
... once rage and bleed , it gave the coup - de - grúce to the falling oppressor ; and by appealing to all the ancient and long- dormant but not extinguished sentiments of loyalty and chivalry which were once so powerful among the French ...
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... once the author thought more of his subject than of himself - more of the wounds he could inflict than of the dazzle he could make . Here he fights like a gladiator in the arena of life and death , dependent on the keen- ness of his ...
... once the author thought more of his subject than of himself - more of the wounds he could inflict than of the dazzle he could make . Here he fights like a gladiator in the arena of life and death , dependent on the keen- ness of his ...
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Página 438 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 386 - MADAM, If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married; if it is yet undone, let us once more talk together. If you have abandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness: if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief.
Página 265 - How easy would it be for the American people to settle the slavery question forever and to restore peace and harmony to this distracted country! They, and they alone, can do it. All that is necessary to accomplish the object, and all for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way.
Página 387 - When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Página 12 - Je dois donc une tendre et éternelle reconnaissance à ma femme, dont l'attachement a été aussi touchant que profond et sincère. Elle a rendu ma vie plus grave, plus noble, plus honorable, en m'inspirant toujours le respect, sinon toujours la force des devoirs.
Página 385 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice.
Página 434 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Página 296 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, A.nd clap your padlock on the mind.
Página 272 - SYDNEY SMITH'S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS; including his Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. Crown 8vo. 6s. The WIT and WISDOM of the Rev. SYDNEY SMITH ; a Selection of the most memorable Passages in his Writings and Conversation.
Página 272 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.