Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes3-4A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1860 |
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... House of Com mons , and which has made the House of Commons , in spite of all the defects in its composition , the best and fairest debating society in the world . But these ac- complished legislators , though quite as ignorant as the ...
... House of Com mons , and which has made the House of Commons , in spite of all the defects in its composition , the best and fairest debating society in the world . But these ac- complished legislators , though quite as ignorant as the ...
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... House of Bourbon took advantage of the neg .. ligence of the administration . On a sudden ' the sup oly of food ... houses of the ministers . The adherents of the THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN . 95.
... House of Bourbon took advantage of the neg .. ligence of the administration . On a sudden ' the sup oly of food ... houses of the ministers . The adherents of the THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN . 95.
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... House of Bourbon . The leading politicians of his court assured him that Lewis , and Lewis alone , was sufficiently powerful to preserve the Spanish monarchy undivided , and that Austria would be utterly unable to prevent the Treaty of ...
... House of Bourbon . The leading politicians of his court assured him that Lewis , and Lewis alone , was sufficiently powerful to preserve the Spanish monarchy undivided , and that Austria would be utterly unable to prevent the Treaty of ...
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... House of Bourbon , and reminded , that his own salva- tion ought to be dearer to him than the House of Aus- tria . Yet he still continued irresolute . His attach- ment to his family , his aversion to France , were not to be overcome ...
... House of Bourbon , and reminded , that his own salva- tion ought to be dearer to him than the House of Aus- tria . Yet he still continued irresolute . His attach- ment to his family , his aversion to France , were not to be overcome ...
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... House of Bourbon was reduced to the last extremity . The French armies had undergone a series of defeats in Germany , in Italy , and in the Netherlands . An im- mense force , flushed with victory , and commanded by the greatest generals ...
... House of Bourbon was reduced to the last extremity . The French armies had undergone a series of defeats in Germany , in Italy , and in the Netherlands . An im- mense force , flushed with victory , and commanded by the greatest generals ...
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Página 433 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 291 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 487 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 486 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Página 290 - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
Página 486 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 86 - The valour, the intelligence, the energy which, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Página 358 - ... suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 223 - Nothing in history or fiction, not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips on the scalp of his murderer, approaches the horrors which were recounted by the few survivors of that night.
Página 385 - ... a price; that it had power to reconcile him to those whom he had most offended and provoked ; and continued to his age with that rare felicity, that his company was acceptable where his spirit was odious ; and he was at least pitied where he was most detested.