Geschichte Englands seit den Friedensschlüssen von 1814 und 1815, Volume 3

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S. Hirzel, 1875
 

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Página 89 - ... Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more. No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp of Tara swells : The chord alone, that breaks at night, Its tale of ruin tells. Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes, The only throb she gives Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives.
Página 207 - It was probably in imitation of them, and to put themselves upon a level with those who, they found, were disposed to oppress them, that the country gentlemen and farmers of Great Britain so far forgot the generosity which is natural to their station as to demand the exclusive privilege of supplying their countrymen with corn and butcher's meat.
Página 446 - For why me thought by saint Gile, All was of stone of berile, Both the castell and the toure, And eke the hall, and every boure, Without peeces or joynings, But many subtell compassings, As babeuries and pinnacles, Imageries and tabernacles, I saw, and full eke of windowes, As flakes fallen in great snowes...
Página 114 - But it is a question vital to us that sealed letters in an English postoffice be, as we all fancied they were, respected as things sacred ; that opening of men's letters, a practice near of kin to picking men's pockets, and to other still viler and far fataler forms of scoundrelism, be not resorted to in England, except in cases of the very last extremity.
Página 458 - I came back convinced that the 1 Diary, quoted "Life," ip 454. » July 17, 1850. 52 interference of our Foreign Office in the domestic affairs of other countries worked injuriously for the interests of those towards whom all my sympathies were attracted — I mean the people — by exciting exaggerated hopes, encouraging premature efforts and teaching reliance upon extraneous aid, when they ought to be impressed with the necessity of self-dependence. I found, too, that the principle of intervention,...
Página 207 - Country gentlemen and farmers are, to their great honour, of all people, the least subject to the wretched spirit of monopoly.
Página 485 - ... my present duties to make any remark upon the acts of your Lordship, except inasmuch as they affect my own position. But within these limits I must, with due deference, be permitted to observe, that if your Lordship, as Foreign Minister, holds one language on such a delicate point in...
Página 201 - with greater means of rendering public service than I should have had if I had not relinquished it.' He felt, he said, ' like a man restored to life after his funeral service had been preached.
Página 242 - Sir R. Peel at that time told Mr. Canning, in the House of Commons, that his unlooked-for opposition to Mr. Canning was grounded on a difference of opinion on the Catholic question...

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