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... Marquis D'Argens , 260 On the Instinct of Dogs , and an account of a Remarkable Dog , 273 Singular account of an Eagle's Nest , 274 Extraordinary Sagacity of a Sheep , 275 Digest of the necessary rules for making Bon - mots , & c . 276 ...
... Marquis D'Argens , 260 On the Instinct of Dogs , and an account of a Remarkable Dog , 273 Singular account of an Eagle's Nest , 274 Extraordinary Sagacity of a Sheep , 275 Digest of the necessary rules for making Bon - mots , & c . 276 ...
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... marquis of Pontécoulant , major of the life - guards , had been so unfortunate in the lifetime of Louis XV . as to incur the displeasure of the dauphiness . The cause was not a very serious one ; but the princess , resenting it with the ...
... marquis of Pontécoulant , major of the life - guards , had been so unfortunate in the lifetime of Louis XV . as to incur the displeasure of the dauphiness . The cause was not a very serious one ; but the princess , resenting it with the ...
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... marquis of Pontécoulant will no longer recollect what I have blotted from my memory . " Another incident shows with what favour she was regarded at that time by the fickle Parisians : " The queen came to Paris to see the play of ...
... marquis of Pontécoulant will no longer recollect what I have blotted from my memory . " Another incident shows with what favour she was regarded at that time by the fickle Parisians : " The queen came to Paris to see the play of ...
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... marquis , and the post of grand treasurer . eight nobles , at the head of whom we find the marquis Hiacinte de Paoli , with the rank of marshal ge- neral . Soon after this , the king of France ordered a body of men , under general de ...
... marquis , and the post of grand treasurer . eight nobles , at the head of whom we find the marquis Hiacinte de Paoli , with the rank of marshal ge- neral . Soon after this , the king of France ordered a body of men , under general de ...
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... marquis of the same name , who , like Paoli's own father , had been attached to the popular cause , and formed , in conjunction with him , one of the council of regency . Being a man of noble sentiments , and uniting the patriot and the ...
... marquis of the same name , who , like Paoli's own father , had been attached to the popular cause , and formed , in conjunction with him , one of the council of regency . Being a man of noble sentiments , and uniting the patriot and the ...
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Page 2 - I' the presence He would say untruths; .and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning : He was never, But where he meant to ruin, pitiful...
Page 197 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away...
Page 16 - There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion: my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, ' walks on the wings of the wind.
Page 235 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Page 96 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 172 - ... asleep upon my knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him, kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not molest him, (for, like many other wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick,) and by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature could be more grateful than my patient after his recovery; a...
Page 14 - The last of the symptoms of rusticity which we think it necessary to notice in the works of this extraordinary man, is that frequent mistake of mere exaggeration and violence, for force and sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is, that his forte was in humour and in pathos — or rather in tenderness of feeling; and that he has very seldom succeeded, either where mere wit and sprightliness,...
Page 17 - ... and disquietudes of this weary life ; for I assure you I am heartily tired of it ; and, if I do not very much deceive myself, I could contentedly and gladly resign it. The soul, uneasy, and confined at home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 16 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 13 - It requires no habit of deep thinking, nor any thing more, indeed, than the information of an honest heart, to perceive that it is cruel and base to spend, in vain superfluities, that money which belongs of right to the pale industrious tradesman and his famishing infants ; or that it is a vile prostitution of language, to talk of that man's generosity or goodness of heart, who sits raving about friendship and philanthropy in a tavern, while his wife's heart is breaking at her cheerless fireside,...