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... character for national freedom 389 IV . On the aptitude of the French character for national self - government 400 • V. On the Constitution of the Prince - President 411 VI . Concluding letter VII . The French Newspaper Press 421 428 ...
... character for national freedom 389 IV . On the aptitude of the French character for national self - government 400 • V. On the Constitution of the Prince - President 411 VI . Concluding letter VII . The French Newspaper Press 421 428 ...
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... discrimina- tion ; and there are some scarcely dubious signs of a rather weak character . * Gibbon says the Buriton farm did not pay , which explains everything .-- ED . ― . Edward Gibbon , the great , was born EDWARD GIBBON . 5.
... discrimina- tion ; and there are some scarcely dubious signs of a rather weak character . * Gibbon says the Buriton farm did not pay , which explains everything .-- ED . ― . Edward Gibbon , the great , was born EDWARD GIBBON . 5.
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... character of the earliest fathers : whether to the second or to the third century , or , with the gener- ality of our writers , means also to include the fourth . But to whatever age he may restrain it , the difficulty at last will be ...
... character of the earliest fathers : whether to the second or to the third century , or , with the gener- ality of our writers , means also to include the fourth . But to whatever age he may restrain it , the difficulty at last will be ...
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... character for their probity , learning , and dignity , in the Romish Church , to this very day . So that the only ... characters of the persons attesting or the nature of the things attested . ” * In terms this and the whole of ...
... character for their probity , learning , and dignity , in the Romish Church , to this very day . So that the only ... characters of the persons attesting or the nature of the things attested . ” * In terms this and the whole of ...
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... character . His change of character changed his position among his relatives . His father , he says , met him as a friend ; and they continued thenceforth on a footing of " easy intimacy . " Especially after the little affair of Made ...
... character . His change of character changed his position among his relatives . His father , he says , met him as a friend ; and they continued thenceforth on a footing of " easy intimacy . " Especially after the little affair of Made ...
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The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton, Volumen2 Walter Bagehot Vista completa - 1891 |
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Página 120 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Página 163 - He shall not drop." said my uncle Toby, firmly. "A-well-o'day, do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,; "the poor soul will die." "He shall not die, by G— !" cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Página 286 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 48 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 205 - Midst furs and silks and jewels sheen He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The centre of the glittering ring, — And Snowdoun's Knight is Scotland's King!
Página 48 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Página 213 - Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene; Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.
Página 12 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Página 80 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Página 157 - Halifax till about the latter end of that year, and cannot omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to...