Littell's Living Age, Volume 160Living Age Company Incorporated, 1884 |
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... sense of Lord North , the solid arguments , the classical allusions and rhapsodies of Burke , the wit and graceful oratory of Sheridan , the lofty eloquence of Pitt , the freezing sarcasm with which he tortured his opponents , and last ...
... sense of Lord North , the solid arguments , the classical allusions and rhapsodies of Burke , the wit and graceful oratory of Sheridan , the lofty eloquence of Pitt , the freezing sarcasm with which he tortured his opponents , and last ...
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... sense of any person I ever In régime . He had the bad taste to intro- duce Madame du Barry to the king on the terrace at Windsor . His Majesty turned his back on the worthy couple with the most astounding celerity . The duke was no ...
... sense of any person I ever In régime . He had the bad taste to intro- duce Madame du Barry to the king on the terrace at Windsor . His Majesty turned his back on the worthy couple with the most astounding celerity . The duke was no ...
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... sense and sagacity , fore- thought and prudence . What was to be done , this being the case ? A wet day would come ... senses . ' 93 " Since Miss Grove has deserted us for the wily Miss Grove , oppressed by the staid solemnity of her one ...
... sense and sagacity , fore- thought and prudence . What was to be done , this being the case ? A wet day would come ... senses . ' 93 " Since Miss Grove has deserted us for the wily Miss Grove , oppressed by the staid solemnity of her one ...
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... sense and right feeling . For the wicked crime of murder George Lam- son now must pay , And with his life upon the gallows end , His wife's brother he with poison so cruelly did slay , And unprepared to meet his Maker send . Nowhere is ...
... sense and right feeling . For the wicked crime of murder George Lam- son now must pay , And with his life upon the gallows end , His wife's brother he with poison so cruelly did slay , And unprepared to meet his Maker send . Nowhere is ...
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... sense , of human sorrows are somewhat , " and that annihilation is and human joys - whether in Monmouth the dream of people sceptical through Court or in Windsor Castle he would lack of imagination . The scene around achieve a swift ...
... sense , of human sorrows are somewhat , " and that annihilation is and human joys - whether in Monmouth the dream of people sceptical through Court or in Windsor Castle he would lack of imagination . The scene around achieve a swift ...
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Page 495 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God; Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God ; and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world.
Page 66 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, 1 than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 305 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 377 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 246 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 65 - I saw that, though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances, and what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of Free Will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character ; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.
Page 377 - And slow and sure comes up the golden year. When wealth no more shall rest in mounded heaps, But smit with freer light shall slowly melt In many streams to fatten lower lands, And light shall spread, and man be liker man Thro' all the season of the golden year.
Page 130 - Itaque majores aliud jus gentium, aliud jus civile esse voluerunt. Quod civile, non idem continuo gentium ; quod autem gentium, idem civile esse debet.
Page 417 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 9 - Known to be immensely rich, destitute of issue, and unmarried, he formed a mark at which every necessitous man or woman throughout the metropolis directed their aim. It is a fact that, when he lay dying in December 1810, his bed was covered with billets and letters to the number of at least seventy, mostly, indeed, addressed to him by females of every description, and of every rank, from Duchesses down to ladies of the easiest virtue. Unable from his extenuated state to open or to peruse them, he...