The National Review, Volumen12Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1861 |
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... sense of honour , quick , sensitive , and fiery , rather than rational or deep ; an hereditary high breeding , which displayed itself rather in exquisite grace and urbanity of manner than in real chastening of spirit ; a native chivalry ...
... sense of honour , quick , sensitive , and fiery , rather than rational or deep ; an hereditary high breeding , which displayed itself rather in exquisite grace and urbanity of manner than in real chastening of spirit ; a native chivalry ...
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... sense and force of character : he had entered the mercantile marine , made one or two successful voyages , and then settled for some years in the West - Indian colonies . As soon as he was in a position of reasonable inde- pendence , he ...
... sense and force of character : he had entered the mercantile marine , made one or two successful voyages , and then settled for some years in the West - Indian colonies . As soon as he was in a position of reasonable inde- pendence , he ...
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... sense , but written in prose— a mistake which causes all its extravagances and anomalies to stand out in disagreeable relief . Only verse , and verse of the highest order , could make such descriptions and rhapsodies har- monious . The ...
... sense , but written in prose— a mistake which causes all its extravagances and anomalies to stand out in disagreeable relief . Only verse , and verse of the highest order , could make such descriptions and rhapsodies har- monious . The ...
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... sense of honour in political affairs . He gave another proof of it in 1807 , by publishing in the Mercure , -a literary paper of which he had become the editor , -- an article containing , among other pungent reflections , the following ...
... sense of honour in political affairs . He gave another proof of it in 1807 , by publishing in the Mercure , -a literary paper of which he had become the editor , -- an article containing , among other pungent reflections , the following ...
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... sense of the word , be called ; his soul was too much eaten away by hollow affectations and puerile vanities , for that . But amid all * Tome vi . p . 242 . his weaknesses and littlenesses he had the faculty of producing 44 Chateaubriand .
... sense of the word , be called ; his soul was too much eaten away by hollow affectations and puerile vanities , for that . But amid all * Tome vi . p . 242 . his weaknesses and littlenesses he had the faculty of producing 44 Chateaubriand .
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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.
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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.