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Page viii
... truth is that he was out of his place in the House of Commons ; he was eminently qualified to shine as a man of genius , as the instructor of mankind , as the brightest luminary of his age : but he had nothing in common with that motley ...
... truth is that he was out of his place in the House of Commons ; he was eminently qualified to shine as a man of genius , as the instructor of mankind , as the brightest luminary of his age : but he had nothing in common with that motley ...
Page ix
... truth concerning himself . He remains to - day a commanding figure on the great tragic stage of life , the hero of a good fight against insurmountable obstacles ; with his tragic flaws , to be sure , but also with a wealth of con ...
... truth concerning himself . He remains to - day a commanding figure on the great tragic stage of life , the hero of a good fight against insurmountable obstacles ; with his tragic flaws , to be sure , but also with a wealth of con ...
Page xi
... truth , a month ago . It would have been of great advantage to me . My time was otherwise employed . Poetry , Sir , nothing but poetry could go down with me ; though I have read more than wrote . So you see I am far gone in the poetical ...
... truth , a month ago . It would have been of great advantage to me . My time was otherwise employed . Poetry , Sir , nothing but poetry could go down with me ; though I have read more than wrote . So you see I am far gone in the poetical ...
Page xiii
... truth were known , these years of obscurity would probably prove to be years of intense application and profound study . When his anonymous Vindication of Natural Society appeared in 1756 , a satirical imitation of the work of ...
... truth were known , these years of obscurity would probably prove to be years of intense application and profound study . When his anonymous Vindication of Natural Society appeared in 1756 , a satirical imitation of the work of ...
Page xxxvi
... truth is that his wrath kindled not because the revolu- tionists lacked provocation , and not because he believed there was no need of improvement in the affairs of France such was not his attitude toward the affairs of any country or ...
... truth is that his wrath kindled not because the revolu- tionists lacked provocation , and not because he believed there was no need of improvement in the affairs of France such was not his attitude toward the affairs of any country or ...
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Page 144 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 207 - An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs* upon the exportation from this kingdom, of coffee and...
Page 342 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 203 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 159 - I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale, would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
Page 268 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 95 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 316 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Page 148 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Page 204 - It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.