Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issue 49Deighton and Laughton, 1895 - Humanities |
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... lives from France and Germany at that time . But the advent of men with money at command , and free from local or national bias in favour of one Polish Duke rather than another , was welcomed rather than objected to by each of these ...
... lives from France and Germany at that time . But the advent of men with money at command , and free from local or national bias in favour of one Polish Duke rather than another , was welcomed rather than objected to by each of these ...
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... lives , in perpetual interference with Italian affairs , totally unconnected with German interests . This title , and what it involved seemed , in the eyes of the monarchs of the middle ages , and even of the great Napoleon himself , to ...
... lives , in perpetual interference with Italian affairs , totally unconnected with German interests . This title , and what it involved seemed , in the eyes of the monarchs of the middle ages , and even of the great Napoleon himself , to ...
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... lives of his subjects ; now in attacks upon this rebellious Italian city , and then in endeavours to gain further possessions in Italy ( not always successfully ) , and at last losing his own life by being drowned in crossing a river ...
... lives of his subjects ; now in attacks upon this rebellious Italian city , and then in endeavours to gain further possessions in Italy ( not always successfully ) , and at last losing his own life by being drowned in crossing a river ...
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... lives were the religious processions organised by the church , and the illuminations and candles before the decorated images of the saints in the churches . When Christianity , however much it might be alloyed with superstition , made ...
... lives were the religious processions organised by the church , and the illuminations and candles before the decorated images of the saints in the churches . When Christianity , however much it might be alloyed with superstition , made ...
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... long duration is presented to us , the question rises unbidden in the mind , What could have * Butler's Lives of the Saints . St. Clare . August 12 . given origin to it ? And what purpose has it DURING THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY . 33.
... long duration is presented to us , the question rises unbidden in the mind , What could have * Butler's Lives of the Saints . St. Clare . August 12 . given origin to it ? And what purpose has it DURING THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY . 33.
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Page 169 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 167 - ... is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders. Spain, in her provinces, is perhaps not so well obeyed as you are in yours. She complies, too; she submits; she watches times. This is the immutable condition, the eternal law, of extensive and detached empire.
Page 168 - It is besides a very great mistake to imagine, that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.
Page 142 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.
Page 251 - An' you hear the crickets quit, an' the moon is gray, An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew is all squenched away — You better mind yer parents, an' yer teachers fond an' dear, An' churish them 'at loves you, an...
Page 177 - Great Britain would be ruined by the separation of Ireland ; but, as there are degrees even in ruin, it would fall the most heavily on Ireland. By such a separation Ireland would be the most completely undone country in the world; the most wretched, the most distracted, and, in the end, the most desolate part of the habitable globe.
Page 180 - Those things which are not practicable are not desirable. There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a welldirected pursuit. There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world. If we cry, like children, for the moon, like children we must cry on.
Page 245 - Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive: Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat...
Page 240 - She sketched ; the vale, the wood, the beach, Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading : She botanized; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalani jealous : She touched the organ; I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows.
Page 254 - eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an