Political Portraits in this New Era: With Explanatory Notes, Historical and Biographical, 第 2 巻1814 |
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... period , on this account that , ( let the world enjoy repose when it may ) , there are new men risen to power on the continent , whose origin and former adventures are not to be mentioned without offence ; and therefore , in order not ...
... period , on this account that , ( let the world enjoy repose when it may ) , there are new men risen to power on the continent , whose origin and former adventures are not to be mentioned without offence ; and therefore , in order not ...
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... musket , and from that period France began to increase in im- portance , and her progress in power ' kept pace exactly with the adoption of fire arms , which took place not all at once , but gradually , till 32 SIR THOMAS GRAHAM .
... musket , and from that period France began to increase in im- portance , and her progress in power ' kept pace exactly with the adoption of fire arms , which took place not all at once , but gradually , till 32 SIR THOMAS GRAHAM .
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... period more dismal , than the disastrous period that followed the fall of the throne of France . Desolation of states , and de- gradation of monarchs , were the only things that were witnessed for twenty years , after the savages of ...
... period more dismal , than the disastrous period that followed the fall of the throne of France . Desolation of states , and de- gradation of monarchs , were the only things that were witnessed for twenty years , after the savages of ...
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... period . The complaints of the catholics , which we hear so much of , and which , even were they listened to , would do so little for the country , are urged with a degree of impatience , that , were there no other rea- son for ...
... period . The complaints of the catholics , which we hear so much of , and which , even were they listened to , would do so little for the country , are urged with a degree of impatience , that , were there no other rea- son for ...
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... period . Lord Grenville and his associates may have plen- ty of time to cabal , but where are they to find materials ? EARL GREY , A NAME that is constantly associated with that of Grenville , since the memorable time when one of those ...
... period . Lord Grenville and his associates may have plen- ty of time to cabal , but where are they to find materials ? EARL GREY , A NAME that is constantly associated with that of Grenville , since the memorable time when one of those ...
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85 ページ - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
111 ページ - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
347 ページ - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...
111 ページ - Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name?— Sir you have the advantage of me— Mr. Such-a-one— I beg a thousand...
380 ページ - Christians are men and women, too; both are surely human beings, and it is quite likely that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all.
321 ページ - ... to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they reta;n what belong to others. The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride, the malignity of revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation — Johnson.
85 ページ - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
111 ページ - I venture to say, it did so happen, that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.
375 ページ - In these two things, viz., an equal indifferency for all truth (I mean the receiving it in the love of it as truth, but not loving it for any other reason before we know it to be true) and in the examination of our principles and not receiving any for such nor building on them...
321 ページ - The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an atrophy.