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... interest , were politics scarcely deserving of the name . The growlings of George the Second , the flirtations of Prin- cess Emily with the Duke of Grafton , the amours of Prince Frederic and Lady Middlesex , the squabbles between Gold ...
... interest , were politics scarcely deserving of the name . The growlings of George the Second , the flirtations of Prin- cess Emily with the Duke of Grafton , the amours of Prince Frederic and Lady Middlesex , the squabbles between Gold ...
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... interest in every noble sharper whose vast volume of wig and infinite length of riband had figured at the dressing or at the tucking up of Louis the Fourteenth , and of every profligate woman of quality who had carried her train of ...
... interest in every noble sharper whose vast volume of wig and infinite length of riband had figured at the dressing or at the tucking up of Louis the Fourteenth , and of every profligate woman of quality who had carried her train of ...
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... interest in pedantic journals of the blockades laid by the Duke of A. to the hearts of the Marquise de B. and the Comtesse de C. This trash Walpole extols in language sufficiently high for the merits of Don Quixote . He wished to ...
... interest in pedantic journals of the blockades laid by the Duke of A. to the hearts of the Marquise de B. and the Comtesse de C. This trash Walpole extols in language sufficiently high for the merits of Don Quixote . He wished to ...
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... interest , in the lowest sense of the word . Under these cir- cumstances , the country could be governed only by corrup- tion . Bolingbroke , who was the ablest and the most vehe- ment of those who raised the clamour against corruption ...
... interest , in the lowest sense of the word . Under these cir- cumstances , the country could be governed only by corrup- tion . Bolingbroke , who was the ablest and the most vehe- ment of those who raised the clamour against corruption ...
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... interests of his country . One of the maxims which , as his son tells us , he was most in the habit of repeating was , quieta non movere . It was in- deed the maxim by which he generally regulated his public conduct . It is the maxim of ...
... interests of his country . One of the maxims which , as his son tells us , he was most in the habit of repeating was , quieta non movere . It was in- deed the maxim by which he generally regulated his public conduct . It is the maxim of ...
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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.