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... historical truth : but the great work of decep- tion went bravely on , and in the year 1845 we find the great Tory party , headed by the representative of High Church < B 6 Oxford , pluming themselves on their consistency , and.
... historical truth : but the great work of decep- tion went bravely on , and in the year 1845 we find the great Tory party , headed by the representative of High Church < B 6 Oxford , pluming themselves on their consistency , and.
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... tion a faithful portrait of their ancestors instead of a vapid caricature . Garrick , acting Macbeth in a powdered wig , with buckles to his shoes , was not more remote from scenic fidelity , than worthy Sir Robert Inglis vociferating ...
... tion a faithful portrait of their ancestors instead of a vapid caricature . Garrick , acting Macbeth in a powdered wig , with buckles to his shoes , was not more remote from scenic fidelity , than worthy Sir Robert Inglis vociferating ...
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... tion subsisting on seven shillings per week , an incendiary fire had at last occurred ; the brother of the lay abbot , after hearing some of the particulars from the farmer whose barns had suffered , turns in a musing mood to the ...
... tion subsisting on seven shillings per week , an incendiary fire had at last occurred ; the brother of the lay abbot , after hearing some of the particulars from the farmer whose barns had suffered , turns in a musing mood to the ...
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... tion would he place me before the people of France ! Ah ! Metter- nich , how much has England given you to act thus towards me ? ' To this coarse insult Metternich replied only by a look of scorn and resentment . For some time they ...
... tion would he place me before the people of France ! Ah ! Metter- nich , how much has England given you to act thus towards me ? ' To this coarse insult Metternich replied only by a look of scorn and resentment . For some time they ...
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... tion on the spot . ' Here we are compelled to pause , but as the succeeding volumes appear , shall return to the consideration of works that have afforded us both instruction and amusement , and which we are rejoiced to see republished ...
... tion on the spot . ' Here we are compelled to pause , but as the succeeding volumes appear , shall return to the consideration of works that have afforded us both instruction and amusement , and which we are rejoiced to see republished ...
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Page 106 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Page 414 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Page 3 - Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.
Page 153 - Under the name of aids, the lord claimed stipulated sums from his tenants on the occasion of the knighting of his eldest son, the marriage of his eldest daughter, or his own capture in war.
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Page 319 - Above all, it was necessary for a right understanding, not only of his religious opinions, but of his whole character, to enter into the peculiar feeling of love and adoration which he entertained towards our Lord Jesus Christ, — peculiar in the distinctness and intensity which, as it characterized almost all his common impressions, so in this case gave additional strength and meaning to those feelings with which he regarded not only His work of Redemption but Himself, as a living Friend and Master....
Page 480 - As when about the silver moon, when air is free from wind, And stars shine clear, to whose sweet beams, high prospects, and the brows Of all steep hills and pinnacles, thrust up themselves for shows. And even the lowly valleys joy to glitter in their sight, When the unmeasured firmament bursts...