Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections. 1st [-3rd] SerLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... nature is such , that it has proved as difficult to convince the people at large of the wicked- ness of selling votes as of killing a pheasant or a hare . In some of the largest constituencies ( Liverpool , for one ) , at the last ...
... nature is such , that it has proved as difficult to convince the people at large of the wicked- ness of selling votes as of killing a pheasant or a hare . In some of the largest constituencies ( Liverpool , for one ) , at the last ...
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... nature : But , if the dog have his master with him , he will set upon that man , from whom he fled before . This shows , that lower natures , being backed by higher , increase in courage and strength ; and certainly man , being backed ...
... nature : But , if the dog have his master with him , he will set upon that man , from whom he fled before . This shows , that lower natures , being backed by higher , increase in courage and strength ; and certainly man , being backed ...
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... nature and by learning taught To move assemblies . ' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax , whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read that Shaftesbury was deemed a mob orator , and , judg- ing from the tone and ...
... nature and by learning taught To move assemblies . ' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax , whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read that Shaftesbury was deemed a mob orator , and , judg- ing from the tone and ...
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... nature of that assembly , ' he writes to Windham ; they grow , like hounds , fond of the man who shows them game , and by whose halloa they are used to be encouraged . ' The Tory squires grew fond of St. John , much as their successors ...
... nature of that assembly , ' he writes to Windham ; they grow , like hounds , fond of the man who shows them game , and by whose halloa they are used to be encouraged . ' The Tory squires grew fond of St. John , much as their successors ...
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... nature than such a wretch as this ? ' He was far from disdainful of imagery or classical illustration . Thus , in the debate on the Peerage Bill of 1719 , enacting that the English peerage should not be enlarged beyond six above the ...
... nature than such a wretch as this ? ' He was far from disdainful of imagery or classical illustration . Thus , in the debate on the Peerage Bill of 1719 , enacting that the English peerage should not be enlarged beyond six above the ...
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Página 382 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Página 53 - Romanus sum,' so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
Página 257 - Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Página 27 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or 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 32 - Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies...
Página 48 - I invoke the Genius of the Constitution. From the tapestry, that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this Noble Lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country. In vain did he defend the liberty, and establish the religion of Britain, against the tyranny of Rome, if these worse than Popish cruelties and Inquisitorial practices are endured among us.
Página 65 - Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Página 390 - It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had tossed in air Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair — The next but swept a lone...
Página 77 - Gentlemen, we may hope to see for the first time in Parliament a party perfectly harmonious and distinguished by mutual and unbroken trust. But there is one difficulty which it is impossible to remove. This party of two reminds me of the Scotch terrier, which was so covered with hair that you could not tell which was the head and which was the tail of it.j The right hon.
Página 11 - 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...