Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes3-4A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1860 |
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... important periods in the history of the world . It exactly measures the time during which the House of Austria held decided superiority and aspired to universal dominion . In the year in which Burleigh was born , Charles the Fifth ...
... important periods in the history of the world . It exactly measures the time during which the House of Austria held decided superiority and aspired to universal dominion . In the year in which Burleigh was born , Charles the Fifth ...
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... important era in the history of the human mind than the age of Pericles , of Augustus , or of Leo . But subjects so vast require a space far larger than we can at present afford . We therefore stop here , fearing that , if we proceed ...
... important era in the history of the human mind than the age of Pericles , of Augustus , or of Leo . But subjects so vast require a space far larger than we can at present afford . We therefore stop here , fearing that , if we proceed ...
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... important ; but they were not likely to be learned by men who , in all their rhapsodies about the Athenian democracy , seemed utterly to for get that in that democracy there were ten slaves to one ritizen ; and who constantly decorated ...
... important ; but they were not likely to be learned by men who , in all their rhapsodies about the Athenian democracy , seemed utterly to for get that in that democracy there were ten slaves to one ritizen ; and who constantly decorated ...
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... important crisis of his life , his pride and his passionis hurried him into an error , which undid all that forty years of vic- tory and intrigue had done , which produced the dis- memberment of the kingdom of his grandson , and brought ...
... important crisis of his life , his pride and his passionis hurried him into an error , which undid all that forty years of vic- tory and intrigue had done , which produced the dis- memberment of the kingdom of his grandson , and brought ...
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... important , is certainly the least attractive . In Italy , in Germany , and in the Netherlands , great means were at the disposal of great generals . ' Mighty battles were fought . Fortress after fortress was subdued . The iron chain of ...
... important , is certainly the least attractive . In Italy , in Germany , and in the Netherlands , great means were at the disposal of great generals . ' Mighty battles were fought . Fortress after fortress was subdued . The iron chain of ...
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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.