Works of Henry Lord Brougham, Volumen4,Parte2

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Página 15 - Others with whom he lived upon the most intimate terms are believed to have interposed fresh obstacles to this scheme; but these were overcome by an understanding that the new wife should enjoy only the name ;— that systematic neglect and insult of every kind heaped upon her should attest how little concern the heart had with this honourable arrangement, and how entirely the husband continued devoted to the wedded wives of other men. Every thing was now settled to the satisfaction of all parties....
Página 332 - I am not afraid of offending a most learned body, and most jealous of its reputation for that learning, when I say he is the first of his profession. It is a point settled by those who settle...
Página 332 - I shall say the less of him, because his near relation to you makes you more particularly acquainted with his merits. But I should appear little acquainted with them, or little sensible of them, if I could utter his name on this occasion without expressing my esteem for his character.
Página 56 - By these dogmas he abided through his whole life, with a steadfastness, and even to a sacrifice of power, which sets at defiance all attempts to question their perfect sincerity. Such as he was when he left Oxford, such he continued above sixty years after, to the close of his long and prosperous life; — the enemy of all reform, the champion of the throne and the altar, and confounding every abuse that surrounded the one, or grew up within the precincts of the other, with the institutions themselves...
Página 356 - If there is any one eminent criterion, which above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident, it is this; — " well to know the best time and manner of yielding what it is impossible to keep.
Página 150 - ... of the mass, as well as in the outward beauty of the die ; the highest talents sustained by the purest virtue ; the capacity of the statesman, and the valour of the hero, outshone by the magnanimous heart, which beats only to the measures of generosity and of justice. Nor let it be deemed any abatement...
Página 481 - ... transcendent light of virtue. The contemplation is not without its uses. The glare of talents and success is apt to obscure defects which are incomparably more mischievous than any intellectual powers can be either useful or admirable. Nor can a lasting renown — a renown that alone deserves to be courted by a rational being — ever be built upon any foundations save those which are laid in an honest heart and a firm purpose, both conspiring to work out the good of mankind. That renown will...
Página 154 - ... at the court ; because nothing is more true than that great merit is safe from all enemies save one — safe and secure, so its possessor will only not join its foes. Unhappily, he formed this inauspicious junction, and the alliance was fatal to his fame. Seduced by the profligate arts of one woman, and the perilous fascinations of another, he lent himself to a proceeding deformed by the blackest colours of treachery and of murder. A temporary aberration of mind can explain though not excuse...
Página 122 - ... to be grossly ludicrous, — that is, the more effective the wit becomes. But though all this is perfectly true, it is equally certain that danger attends such courses with the common run of plain men. Hence all lawyers versed in the practice of Nisi Prius, are well aware of the risk they run by being witty, or ingenious and fanciful before a jury ; unless their object be to reduce the damages in an absurd case, by what is called laughing it out of court ; and you can almost tell, at a great...
Página 483 - Register for 1777 states, that Mr. Burke took the same course in the House of Commons. " Upon hearing what had passed in the House of Lords, Lord Bute exclaimed with astonishment — ' Did Pitt really deny it ? — Why, I have letters of his still by me, singing lo Paeans over the advantages we gained through our Indian allies.

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