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... person . He loved letter - writing , and had evidently studied it as an art . It was , in truth , the very kind of writing for such a man , for a man very ambitious to rank among wits , yet nervously afraid that , while obtaining the ...
... person . He loved letter - writing , and had evidently studied it as an art . It was , in truth , the very kind of writing for such a man , for a man very ambitious to rank among wits , yet nervously afraid that , while obtaining the ...
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... person could find favour . But while the influence of the House of Commons in the Government was becoming paramount , the influence of the people over the House of Commons was declining . It mattered little in the time of Charles the ...
... person could find favour . But while the influence of the House of Commons in the Government was becoming paramount , the influence of the people over the House of Commons was declining . It mattered little in the time of Charles the ...
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... person . His understanding was that of Walpole on a some- what smaller scale . Though not a brilliant orator , he was , like his master , a good debater , a good parliamentary tacti- cian , a good man of business . Like his master , he ...
... person . His understanding was that of Walpole on a some- what smaller scale . Though not a brilliant orator , he was , like his master , a good debater , a good parliamentary tacti- cian , a good man of business . Like his master , he ...
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... person to a share of his au- thority until the throne was filled by a new Prince , who brought with him new maxims of Government , new favourites , and a strong will . But the inauspicious commencement of the Seven Years ' War brought ...
... person to a share of his au- thority until the throne was filled by a new Prince , who brought with him new maxims of Government , new favourites , and a strong will . But the inauspicious commencement of the Seven Years ' War brought ...
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... person who had so little claim to this sort of praise as Pitt . He was un- doubtedly a great man . But his was not a complete and well- proportioned greatness . The public life of Hampden or of Somers resembles a regular drama , which ...
... person who had so little claim to this sort of praise as Pitt . He was un- doubtedly a great man . But his was not a complete and well- proportioned greatness . The public life of Hampden or of Somers resembles a regular drama , which ...
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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 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 620 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Página 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Página 524 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted.
Página 242 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Página 442 - The maccaroni black-balled them as vulgar fellows. Writers the most unlike in sentiment and style — Methodists and libertines, philosophers and buffoons — were for once on the same side. It is hardly too much to say, that, during a space of about thirty years, the whole lighter literature of England was coloured by the feelings which we have described.
Página 168 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.
Página 242 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.