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... known him in his low- degree . He will allow that the Athenian est state can scarcely imagine ? All we democracy was less infatuated than the venture to hope is , that a certain degree of French ; and that the American democracy is this ...
... known him in his low- degree . He will allow that the Athenian est state can scarcely imagine ? All we democracy was less infatuated than the venture to hope is , that a certain degree of French ; and that the American democracy is this ...
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... known that the Duke of sent political state is at least tolerable . The Wellington was , for the moment , most un- progress of reform in England has long justly indeed , but naturally and excusably , been peaceful and constitutional ...
... known that the Duke of sent political state is at least tolerable . The Wellington was , for the moment , most un- progress of reform in England has long justly indeed , but naturally and excusably , been peaceful and constitutional ...
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... known to have been familiar the moral character of Napoleon . Thirty with every form of violence and treachery . years ago , most Englishmen believed him His narrative of the lamented fate of the to be one of those wretched monomaniacs ...
... known to have been familiar the moral character of Napoleon . Thirty with every form of violence and treachery . years ago , most Englishmen believed him His narrative of the lamented fate of the to be one of those wretched monomaniacs ...
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... known for his unmerited reputation is the most useful , the speculations in the theory of war , and pos- most difficult , the most invidious , and there- sessing , we believe , much experience in fore , perhaps , the noblest task of an ...
... known for his unmerited reputation is the most useful , the speculations in the theory of war , and pos- most difficult , the most invidious , and there- sessing , we believe , much experience in fore , perhaps , the noblest task of an ...
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... known ; and many of the facts are not to be called new in strictness , for we all knew that Frenchmen eat frogs , and can- nibals human flesh . The attraction lies in the clear arrangement , the novel air im- parted to the facts by ...
... known ; and many of the facts are not to be called new in strictness , for we all knew that Frenchmen eat frogs , and can- nibals human flesh . The attraction lies in the clear arrangement , the novel air im- parted to the facts by ...
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Página 477 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Página 206 - Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more.
Página 207 - Curse on him!" quoth false Sextus; "Will not the villain drown? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town ! " "Heaven help him!" quoth Lars Porsena. "And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
Página 403 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Página 448 - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as Intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats.
Página 119 - ... silent heart, and where thy smiles have been ! While e'en thy chill bleak corse I have, thou seemest still mine own ; But there, I lay thee in thy grave — and I am now alone ! I do not think, where'er thou art, thou hast forgotten me ; And I, perhaps, may soothe this heart, in thinking, too, of thee : Yet there was round thee such a dawn of light ne'er seen before, As Fancy never could have drawn, and never can restore 1 7o.—GO, FORGET MB.—lTo^s.
Página 207 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home, And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
Página 174 - The tribute due To him, and aught that hides his clay From mortal view. Fresh as the flower, whose modest worth He sang, his genius "glinted...
Página 207 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear. All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Página 172 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.