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... France has received them from us by direct communi- cation . Isolated by our situation , isolated by our manners , we found truth , but we did not impart it . France has been the interpreter between England and mankind . In the time of ...
... France has received them from us by direct communi- cation . Isolated by our situation , isolated by our manners , we found truth , but we did not impart it . France has been the interpreter between England and mankind . In the time of ...
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... France and for mankind . Walpole had neither hopes nor fears . Though the most Frenchified English writer of the eighteenth century , he troubled himself little about the portents which were daily to be discerned in the French ...
... France and for mankind . Walpole had neither hopes nor fears . Though the most Frenchified English writer of the eighteenth century , he troubled himself little about the portents which were daily to be discerned in the French ...
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... conquer the Highlands in the midst of a war with France and Spain , be- cause he had not regulated the Highlands in a time of pro- found peace . Sometimes , in spite of all his caution , he WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN . 21.
... conquer the Highlands in the midst of a war with France and Spain , be- cause he had not regulated the Highlands in a time of pro- found peace . Sometimes , in spite of all his caution , he WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN . 21.
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... France . Governor Pitt bought estates and rotten boroughs , and sat in the House of Commons for Old Sarum . His son Robert was at one time member for Old Sarum , and at another for Oakhampton . Robert had two sons . Thomas , the elder ...
... France . Governor Pitt bought estates and rotten boroughs , and sat in the House of Commons for Old Sarum . His son Robert was at one time member for Old Sarum , and at another for Oakhampton . Robert had two sons . Thomas , the elder ...
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... France and Italy . He returned , however , without having received much benefit from his excursion , and continued , till the close of his life , to suffer most severely from his constitutional malady . His father was now dead , and had ...
... France and Italy . He returned , however , without having received much benefit from his excursion , and continued , till the close of his life , to suffer most severely from his constitutional malady . His father was now dead , and had ...
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Página 242 - 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 106 - 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 606 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid.
Página 453 - 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 242 - 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 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Página 303 - A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 203 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 604 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, and imaginative mind.
Página 453 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still nourished in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca.