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... questions , and to perform political func- tions , that he has lived for seventeen or eighteen . years under institutions which , however defective , have yet been far superior to any institutions that had before existed in France ...
... questions , and to perform political func- tions , that he has lived for seventeen or eighteen . years under institutions which , however defective , have yet been far superior to any institutions that had before existed in France ...
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... question , though in seeming merely a question of defi- nition , suggests much curious and interesting matter for reflection . If we look at the magnitude of the reform , it may well be called a revolution . If we look at the means by ...
... question , though in seeming merely a question of defi- nition , suggests much curious and interesting matter for reflection . If we look at the magnitude of the reform , it may well be called a revolution . If we look at the means by ...
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... questions of vast moment were left to be solved by men to whom politics had been only matter of theory that a legislature was composed of persons who were scarcely fit to compose a debating society — that the whole nation was ready to ...
... questions of vast moment were left to be solved by men to whom politics had been only matter of theory that a legislature was composed of persons who were scarcely fit to compose a debating society — that the whole nation was ready to ...
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... questions - sentences which at once became proverbs sentences which everybody still knows by heart - in these chiefly lay the oratorical power both of Chatham and of Mirabeau . There have been far greater speakers , and far greater ...
... questions - sentences which at once became proverbs sentences which everybody still knows by heart - in these chiefly lay the oratorical power both of Chatham and of Mirabeau . There have been far greater speakers , and far greater ...
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... question was certainly very complicated . That claim which , according to the ordinary rules of inher- itance , was the strongest , had been barred by a con- tract executed in the most binding form . The claim of the Electoral Prince of ...
... question was certainly very complicated . That claim which , according to the ordinary rules of inher- itance , was the strongest , had been barred by a con- tract executed in the most binding form . The claim of the Electoral Prince of ...
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Página 294 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 490 - 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 482 - Round he surveys, and well might, where he stood So high above the circling canopy Of night's extended shade, from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas. Beyond the horizon...
Página 490 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 490 - 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; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 417 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Página 317 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Página 82 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Página 370 - The prediction was accomplished. Essex returned in disgrace. Bacon attempted to mediate between his friend and the Queen; and, we believe, honestly employed all his address for that purpose. But the task which he had undertaken was too difficult, delicate, and perilous, even for so wai-y and dexterous an agent.
Página 493 - ... a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by a near horizon, or diversified only by some deceitful mirage, he was gazing from a far higher stand on a far lovelier country, following with his eye the long course of fertilising rivers, through ample pastures, and under the bridges of great capitals, measuring the distances of marts and havens, and portioning out all...