Coningsby; Or, The New Generation, Volume 2Henry Colburn, publisher, 1844 - 350 páginas |
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admiration amused ancient Arabs Archduke aristocracy arrival Beaumanoir beautiful beheld bon-ton borough bowed Buckhurst Castle CHAPTER character circumstances confidence Coningsby Coningsby's Conservative Cause countenance Darlford daughter Desart dinner election England entered Eton Europe eyes fancied father favour feeling Flora gentleman glance grace grandfather grandson guests Guy Flouncey heard Hebrew Hellingsley Honourable hour House House of Lords influence intellect intelligence interest Jawster Sharp Jews King Lady St looked Lord Eskdale Lord Grey Lord Monmouth Lucian Gay Madame Colonna Mademoiselle Manchester manner Marquess Melton ment mind Miss Millbank morning Naples never Nicholas Rigby ningsby observed opinion Paris Parliament party person Petite political Princess Lucretia principle race Reform Rigby Rigby's Russian scarcely seemed Sidonia smiling society spirit stranger style Tadpole talked Taper tell theatre thing thought tion tone town Villebecque voice Whig wished young
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Página 178 - It was not Reason that besieged Troy; it was not Reason that sent forth the Saracen from the Desert to conquer the world ; that inspired the Crusades ; that instituted the Monastic orders ; it was not Reason that produced the Jesuits ; above all, it was not Reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions ; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Página 50 - Jawster Sharp, who had taken what is called " a leading part" in the town on every "crisis" that had occurred since 1830; one of those zealous patriots who had got up penny subscriptions for gold cups to Lord Grey ; cries for the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill...
Página 200 - ... OF SPIRITUAL CHRISTIANITY, and who is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Berlin, IS A JEW.] Benary, equally famous, and in the same university, is a Jew. Wehl, the Arabic Professor of Heidelberg, is a Jew. Years ago, when I was in Palestine, I met a German student who was accumulating materials for the history of Christianity and studying the genius of the place; a modest and learned man.
Página 203 - Favoured by Nature we still remain: but in exact proportion as we have been favoured by Nature we have been persecuted by Man. After a thousand struggles; after acts of heroic courage that Rome has never equalled; deeds of divine patriotism that Athens, and Sparta, and...
Página 228 - Argyle and Somerset, worthy of seats in the Council of Ten, forced their Sovereign on her deathbed to change the ministry. They accomplished their object. They brought in a new family on their own terms. George I. was a Doge; George II. was a Doge; they were what William III., a great man, would not be.
Página 200 - German professors of this race, their name is Legion. I think there are more than ten at Berlin alone. 'I told you just now that I was going up to town tomorrow, because I always made it a rule to interpose when affairs of State were on the carpet. Otherwise, I never interfere. I hear of peace and war in newspapers, but I am never alarmed, except when I am informed that the Sovereigns want treasure; then I know that monarchs are serious.
Página 4 - ... colour and an impulse to our future life. What is this Fatality that men worship? Is it a Goddess? Unquestionably it is a power that acts mainly by female agents. Women are the Priestesses of Predestination. Man conceives Fortune, but Woman conducts it. It is the Spirit of Man that says, 'I will be great; 'but it is the Sympathy of Woman that usually makes him so.
Página 171 - You will observe one curious trait," said Sidonia to Coningsby, "in the history of this country; the depositary of power is always unpopular, all combine against it, always it falls. Power was deposited in the great barons; the church using the king for its instrument crushed the great barons. Power was deposited in the church; the king bribing the Parliament plundered the church. Power was deposited in the king; the Parliament using the people beheaded the king, expelled the king, changed the king,...
Página 307 - An educated nation recoils from the imperfect vicariate of what is called a representative government. Your House of Commons, that has absorbed all other powers in the State, will in all probability fall more rapidly than it rose. Public opinion has a more direct, a more comprehensive, a more efficient organ for its utterance, than a body of men sectionally chosen. The Printing-press is a political element unknown to classic or feudal times. It absorbs in a great degree the duties of the Sovereign,...
Página 129 - Sidonia had exhausted all the sources of human knowledge; he was master of the learning of every nation, of all tongues dead or living, of every literature, Western and Oriental. He had pursued the speculations of science to their last term, and had himself illustrated them by observation and experiment.