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... never acquired the art of writing his own language with case and correctness , and though his slips in grammar and in spelling are rather conspicuous in his pri- vate correspondence , he had acquired sufficient knowledge to be a good ...
... never acquired the art of writing his own language with case and correctness , and though his slips in grammar and in spelling are rather conspicuous in his pri- vate correspondence , he had acquired sufficient knowledge to be a good ...
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... never rest upon you ! " For some time after the death of his wife Howard remained in the melancholy retirement of Cardington ; but he soon found that residence in a place every part of which brought up some recollection of his sad ...
... never rest upon you ! " For some time after the death of his wife Howard remained in the melancholy retirement of Cardington ; but he soon found that residence in a place every part of which brought up some recollection of his sad ...
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... never less than thirty - two persons locked up in St. George's ward every night , which is a room of sixteen by fourteen feet , and about eight feet high ; the surface of the room is not sufficient to contain that number when laid down ...
... never less than thirty - two persons locked up in St. George's ward every night , which is a room of sixteen by fourteen feet , and about eight feet high ; the surface of the room is not sufficient to contain that number when laid down ...
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... never have made a distin- guished appearance as a member of Parliament ; nay , probably he would at once have sunk into the insignificant position of a silent member ; while , occupied by his attendance at the House , he would not have ...
... never have made a distin- guished appearance as a member of Parliament ; nay , probably he would at once have sunk into the insignificant position of a silent member ; while , occupied by his attendance at the House , he would not have ...
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... never drank wine , yet we are told it was always provided , and that of the best quality , for his friends who chose to take it . Though strictly economical in his personal habits , Howard was the very antithesis of mean- ness . While ...
... never drank wine , yet we are told it was always provided , and that of the best quality , for his friends who chose to take it . Though strictly economical in his personal habits , Howard was the very antithesis of mean- ness . While ...
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Page 59 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond...
Page 13 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Page 135 - ... the blow that rends its kindred throne! You have said, my lords, you have willed — the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service! She has, instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble...
Page 273 - That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance : If every just man, that now pines with want, Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store...
Page 136 - ... kindred Throne ! You have said, my Lords, you have willed — -the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service. She has instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble supplications at the Throne of Mercy, that that mercy may be poured down upon the people, in a larger measure than the merits of its rulers may deserve, and that your hearts may be turned to justice.
Page 23 - Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations." BOSWELL. "Sir, do you think him as bad a man as Voltaire?" JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
Page 439 - You Enterprised a Railroad through the valley — you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. The valley is gone, and the Gods with it; and now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange — you Fools Everywhere.
Page 409 - ... effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine,...
Page 432 - The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.
Page 247 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.