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... taken in by it . Of the twenty- six years during which Walpole sat in Parliament , thirteen were years of war . Yet he did not , during all those thirteen years , utter a single word or give a single vote tending to peace . His most ...
... taken in by it . Of the twenty- six years during which Walpole sat in Parliament , thirteen were years of war . Yet he did not , during all those thirteen years , utter a single word or give a single vote tending to peace . His most ...
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... taken for granted that Government could be upheld only by the basest and most immoral arts , he appealed to the better and nobler parts of human nature ; that he made a brave and splendid attempt to do , by means of public opinion ...
... taken for granted that Government could be upheld only by the basest and most immoral arts , he appealed to the better and nobler parts of human nature ; that he made a brave and splendid attempt to do , by means of public opinion ...
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... taken separately , a skilful defender of Walpole might perhaps make out a case for him . But when we see that during a long course of years all the foot- steps are turned the same way , that all the most eminent of those public men who ...
... taken separately , a skilful defender of Walpole might perhaps make out a case for him . But when we see that during a long course of years all the foot- steps are turned the same way , that all the most eminent of those public men who ...
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... taken office at this time , he would in all proba- bility have shared largely in the unpopularity of Pulteney , Sandys , and Carteret . He was now the fiercest and most implacable of those who called for vengeance on Walpole . He spoke ...
... taken office at this time , he would in all proba- bility have shared largely in the unpopularity of Pulteney , Sandys , and Carteret . He was now the fiercest and most implacable of those who called for vengeance on Walpole . He spoke ...
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... taken root in the King's mind . They knew that Pitt was not a man to be deceived with ease or offended with impunity . They were afraid that they should not be long able to put him off with promises . Nor was it their interest so to put ...
... taken root in the King's mind . They knew that Pitt was not a man to be deceived with ease or offended with impunity . They were afraid that they should not be long able to put him off with promises . Nor was it their interest so to put ...
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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.