Quarterly Review, Volume 61John Murray, 1838 |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 84
Página 2
... French history , from Clovis down to the present day : -All this offers , at the first glance , the magnificent realization of a magnificent idea , and the eye of the transient visitor is lost in admiration of the generosity and taste ...
... French history , from Clovis down to the present day : -All this offers , at the first glance , the magnificent realization of a magnificent idea , and the eye of the transient visitor is lost in admiration of the generosity and taste ...
Página 8
... French , ' and the most important and the most complete which has ever been raised to our national glory ! ' ( Prospectus ) ; which certainly it would be if his subsequent assertions were true - that when Louis Philippe undertook his ...
... French , ' and the most important and the most complete which has ever been raised to our national glory ! ' ( Prospectus ) ; which certainly it would be if his subsequent assertions were true - that when Louis Philippe undertook his ...
Página 15
... French architecture should have been invited to erect them a suitable habitation , instead of quar- tering all the historical personages of France , as if at random , in the apartments destined for ordinary inhabitants : -Clovis and ...
... French architecture should have been invited to erect them a suitable habitation , instead of quar- tering all the historical personages of France , as if at random , in the apartments destined for ordinary inhabitants : -Clovis and ...
Página 17
... French Historical Gallery - supported as it is by this great example- it is not for us to controvert ; but we must observe , that it is not at all necessary that public gratitude should come in aid of Louis Philippe's modesty by calling ...
... French Historical Gallery - supported as it is by this great example- it is not for us to controvert ; but we must observe , that it is not at all necessary that public gratitude should come in aid of Louis Philippe's modesty by calling ...
Página 19
... French Artillery ? to which rank he was promoted on the 2nd February , 1792. ( See Quar . Rev. vol . Iviii . p . 488. ) His com- mand of a battalion of militia in Corsica , towards the close of that year , was merely accidental and ...
... French Artillery ? to which rank he was promoted on the 2nd February , 1792. ( See Quar . Rev. vol . Iviii . p . 488. ) His com- mand of a battalion of militia in Corsica , towards the close of that year , was merely accidental and ...
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
admit afford Alberche appears army Arnheim authority ballot battle battle of Talavera British called cavalry character Church Colonel Napier conduct constitution course court Cuesta doubt Duke duty effect elector Emperor enemy England English existence fact favour feeling France French give Grote hand honour House of Commons human individual influence interest justice King Ladakh letter Lord John Russell Lord Tavistock Louis Philippe Louis XIV magnetic ment mind Moorcroft moral nature never noble oath object obligation observations officers opinion Parliament party passed perhaps persons political position present principle proceedings promise question racter readers robbers seems Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir Robert Sir Robert Peel somnambulism Spain Spanish spirit supposed Talavera Texas thought tion troops truth University University of Oxford Versailles vote Wallenstein Wellsted whole words
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 348 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 457 - There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they! The moping idiot, and the madman gay.
Página 230 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 230 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Página 230 - ... if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy...
Página 503 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
Página 231 - ... use and benefit of man, so the end ought to be, from both philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful; that knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master's use, but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, *> and comfort.
Página 457 - ... such inmate, nor shall authorize the education of any child in such workhouse in any religious creed other than that professed by the parents or surviving parent of such child, and to which such parents or parent shall object, or, in the case of an orphan, to which the godfather or godmother of such orphan shall so object...
Página 14 - Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer, Jura neget sibi nata, nihil non arroget armis. Sit Medea ferox invictaque, flebilis Ino, Perfidus Ixion, lo vaga, tristis Orestes. Si quid inexpertum scenae committis et audes Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet.
Página 307 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.