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... company . There is a pos- sibility that Fauntleroy may have forged powers of attorney , only in order that his fate might turn the attention of the public to the defects of the penal law . These things , we say , are possible . But they ...
... company . There is a pos- sibility that Fauntleroy may have forged powers of attorney , only in order that his fate might turn the attention of the public to the defects of the penal law . These things , we say , are possible . But they ...
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... company was acceptable where his spirit was odious , and he was at least pitied where he was most detested . " Much of this , with some softening , might , we fear , be applied to Bacon . The influence of Waller's talents , manners ...
... company was acceptable where his spirit was odious , and he was at least pitied where he was most detested . " Much of this , with some softening , might , we fear , be applied to Bacon . The influence of Waller's talents , manners ...
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... Company of Apothecaries and the Company of Grocers . Bacon in his Confession , insisted strongly on the circumstance that he had on this occasion taken a present publicly , as a proof that he had not taken it corruptly . Is it not clear ...
... Company of Apothecaries and the Company of Grocers . Bacon in his Confession , insisted strongly on the circumstance that he had on this occasion taken a present publicly , as a proof that he had not taken it corruptly . Is it not clear ...
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... company . The dig- nified reserve of manners which he had acquired during a residence in Spain provoked the ridicule of those who consi- dered the usages of the French court as the only standard of good breeding , but served to impress ...
... company . The dig- nified reserve of manners which he had acquired during a residence in Spain provoked the ridicule of those who consi- dered the usages of the French court as the only standard of good breeding , but served to impress ...
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... company with Lady Giffard he arrived at the Hague . He was not charged with any public commission , but he availed himself of this opportunity of introducing him- self to De Witt . " My only business , sir , " he said , " is to see the ...
... company with Lady Giffard he arrived at the Hague . He was not charged with any public commission , but he availed himself of this opportunity of introducing him- self to De Witt . " My only business , sir , " he said , " is to see the ...
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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.