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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Página 194
... trumping up a charge of treason , upon which the duke was found guilty by his peers and beheaded on Tower Hill . When the Emperor Charles V. heard of his execution , he is reported to have exclaimed , A butcher's dog has killed the ...
... trumping up a charge of treason , upon which the duke was found guilty by his peers and beheaded on Tower Hill . When the Emperor Charles V. heard of his execution , he is reported to have exclaimed , A butcher's dog has killed the ...
Página 415
... trump leading , were all mad , and that their great master , Deschapelles - the finest whist - player beyond any comparison the world has ever seen — was a dangerous lunatic . The new school , however , as I well remember , were found ...
... trump leading , were all mad , and that their great master , Deschapelles - the finest whist - player beyond any comparison the world has ever seen — was a dangerous lunatic . The new school , however , as I well remember , were found ...
Página 420
... trumps . As soon as I get the lead , in full confidence that he is numerically strong in hearts , I lead a trump ... trumps is to draw the adversary's trumps for the pur- pose of bringing in your own or your partner's long suit ; and it ...
... trumps . As soon as I get the lead , in full confidence that he is numerically strong in hearts , I lead a trump ... trumps is to draw the adversary's trumps for the pur- pose of bringing in your own or your partner's long suit ; and it ...
Página 421
... trumps . It has been computed , ' was the calm reply , that eleven thousand Englishmen , once heirs to fair fortunes , are wandering about the Continent , in a state of utter destitution , because they would not lead trumps with five ...
... trumps . It has been computed , ' was the calm reply , that eleven thousand Englishmen , once heirs to fair fortunes , are wandering about the Continent , in a state of utter destitution , because they would not lead trumps with five ...
Página 422
... trumps should not be led , unless it is obviously advantageous to get them out . It is obviously advantageous when you or your partner have good cards to make , and obviously dis- advantageous when you have not . have not . If there are ...
... trumps should not be led , unless it is obviously advantageous to get them out . It is obviously advantageous when you or your partner have good cards to make , and obviously dis- advantageous when you have not . have not . If there are ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 101 - 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 54 - 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 441 - 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 55 - 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 277 - 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 98 - 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 68 - 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 438 - 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 99 - ... 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.