Political Portraits in this New Era: With Explanatory Notes, Historical and Biographical, Volum 21814 |
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Pàgina 63
... given . Mankind are too irregular in their conduct , and liable to too many accidents , for justice to be laid to the line , and judgment to the plummet ; and of all men , young officers , full of ambition , and seek- ing reputation ...
... given . Mankind are too irregular in their conduct , and liable to too many accidents , for justice to be laid to the line , and judgment to the plummet ; and of all men , young officers , full of ambition , and seek- ing reputation ...
Pàgina 65
... given , which , from British officers , who are no flatterers nor hypocrites , is a direct and unequivocal proof of their esteem ; and that esteem can only be acquired by his correct and friendly conduct in his connexion with those ...
... given , which , from British officers , who are no flatterers nor hypocrites , is a direct and unequivocal proof of their esteem ; and that esteem can only be acquired by his correct and friendly conduct in his connexion with those ...
Pàgina 69
... given in the letter of an elector , which is not so well known as it deserves to be . " Lord Grenville is a very clear and a very intel- ligent speaker . Although sufficiently logical in his discussions , and capable of the rich ...
... given in the letter of an elector , which is not so well known as it deserves to be . " Lord Grenville is a very clear and a very intel- ligent speaker . Although sufficiently logical in his discussions , and capable of the rich ...
Pàgina 93
... given up with a hope of re - conquering it in more prospe- rous times , and therefore what is termed romantic bravery , though often imprudent , has always excited admiration . The king of Sweden quitted Pomerania after great sacrifices ...
... given up with a hope of re - conquering it in more prospe- rous times , and therefore what is termed romantic bravery , though often imprudent , has always excited admiration . The king of Sweden quitted Pomerania after great sacrifices ...
Pàgina 110
... produce ! † The alarm given by the sudden and sad assassination of Mr. Perceval was so great , that the parliament thought the nation on Lord Moira was next empowered to form an administration , 110 MARQUIS OF HERTFORD .
... produce ! † The alarm given by the sudden and sad assassination of Mr. Perceval was so great , that the parliament thought the nation on Lord Moira was next empowered to form an administration , 110 MARQUIS OF HERTFORD .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 85 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Pàgina 111 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
Pàgina 347 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...
Pàgina 111 - Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name?— Sir you have the advantage of me— Mr. Such-a-one— I beg a thousand...
Pàgina 380 - Christians are men and women, too; both are surely human beings, and it is quite likely that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Pàgina 321 - ... to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they reta;n what belong to others. The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride, the malignity of revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation — Johnson.
Pàgina 85 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Pàgina 111 - I venture to say, it did so happen, that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.
Pàgina 375 - In these two things, viz., an equal indifferency for all truth (I mean the receiving it in the love of it as truth, but not loving it for any other reason before we know it to be true) and in the examination of our principles and not receiving any for such nor building on them...
Pàgina 321 - The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an atrophy.