The British Parliament ... The pearls and mock pearls of history. Vicissitudes of families ... England and France ... Lady Palmerston. Lord Lansdowne. Lord Dalling and Bulwer. Whist and whist-playersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1878 |
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... looks and in great agitation . All London looked for- ward to the next day with painful forebodings . The general feeling was in favour of the Bill . It was rumoured that the majority which had determined to stand by the amendments ...
... looks and in great agitation . All London looked for- ward to the next day with painful forebodings . The general feeling was in favour of the Bill . It was rumoured that the majority which had determined to stand by the amendments ...
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... look aside from him without loss . He commanded where he spoke , and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion . No man had their affections more in his power . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end ...
... look aside from him without loss . He commanded where he spoke , and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion . No man had their affections more in his power . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end ...
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... look about him . A modern debater addresses the entire nation through the parliamentary reporters , and his reputation depends in a great measure on the estimate they may found on the substance of his speeches . St. John had only to ...
... look about him . A modern debater addresses the entire nation through the parliamentary reporters , and his reputation depends in a great measure on the estimate they may found on the substance of his speeches . St. John had only to ...
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... looks upon himself as the only person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation , and therefore christening every other gentleman who has the honour to be employed in the administration by the name of blunderer ...
... looks upon himself as the only person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation , and therefore christening every other gentleman who has the honour to be employed in the administration by the name of blunderer ...
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... looks of a witness at the Bar , had said : It is unjust , ungenerous , and unmanly to censure a man for that signature which God had im- pressed upon his countenance , and which therefore he could not by any means remedy or avoid ...
... looks of a witness at the Bar , had said : It is unjust , ungenerous , and unmanly to censure a man for that signature which God had im- pressed upon his countenance , and which therefore he could not by any means remedy or avoid ...
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amongst appears arms asked battle beautiful became become better called carried cause Charles Commons death debate descended Duke Earl Edition effect England English equally fact feel five force fortune four France French give given hand head Henry hold honour House instance John king Lady land late lead less living London look Lord married matter means mind nature never noble object once party pass person Pitt play player political present Prince queen reason received remain remark replied royal says speak speech story successful suit Taine taken tell things third thought tion told trick trumps turned unless whist whole writes young
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Página 103 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 4 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand...
Página 56 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Página 443 - Surrey hie; Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Página 57 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Página 279 - No one shall run on the Sabbath Day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. ' No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day. ' No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or Fasting Day.
Página 100 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Página 70 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Página 440 - A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle, (now with God,) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist.
Página 101 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.