Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes3-4A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1860 |
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... considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum . But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence ...
... considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum . But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence ...
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... considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Me- lancthon was one of these moderate persons , and " ap- pears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater lengths than any imputed to Lord Burleigh . ' " 9 We should have thought ...
... considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Me- lancthon was one of these moderate persons , and " ap- pears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater lengths than any imputed to Lord Burleigh . ' " 9 We should have thought ...
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... considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish or Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own ...
... considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish or Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own ...
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... considered by the great body of their countrymen as wicked disturbers of the public peace . The account which Cardinal Bentivoglio gave of the state of religion in England well deserves consid- eration . The zealous Catholics he ...
... considered by the great body of their countrymen as wicked disturbers of the public peace . The account which Cardinal Bentivoglio gave of the state of religion in England well deserves consid- eration . The zealous Catholics he ...
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... considered as an internal movement , the mildest of all ? There is an obvious . and complete solution of the problem . The English under James the First and Charles the First were less oppressed than the French under Louis the Fifteenth ...
... considered as an internal movement , the mildest of all ? There is an obvious . and complete solution of the problem . The English under James the First and Charles the First were less oppressed than the French under Louis the Fifteenth ...
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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.