Historical Gleanings: A Series of Sketches: Montagu. Walpole. Adam Smith. CobbettMacmillan and Company, 1869 - 185 pages |
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Page 82 - The most pernicious circumstances," he said, " in which this country can be are those of war; as we must be losers while it lasts, and cannot be great gainers when it ends.
Page 160 - He was no almanackmaker, nor quack, nor chimney-doctor, nor soapboiler, nor ambassador, nor printer's devil: neither was he a deist, and all his children were born in wedlock. The legacies he left, were, his scythe, his reap-hook, and his flail ; he bequeathed no old and irrecoverable debts to an hospital : he never cheated the poor during his life, nor mocked them in his death.
Page 157 - Every one will, I hope, have the goodness to believe, that my grandfather was no philosopher. Indeed he was not. He never made a lightning-rod, nor bottled up a single quart of sun-shine, in the whole course of his life.
Page 160 - He was no almanack-maker, nor quack, nor chimney-doctor, nor soap-boiler, nor ambassador, nor printer's-devil : neither was he a deist ; and all his children were born in wedlock. The legacies he left were, his scythe, his reaphook, and his flail ; he bequeathed no old and irrecoverable debts to an hospital; he never cheated the poor during his life, nor mocked them at his death.
Page 82 - one is forced to travel even at noon as if one were going to battle.
Page 60 - Alliance always put her in mind of the South Sea scheme, which the parties concerned entered into not without knowing the cheat, but hoping to make advantage of it, everybody designing, when he had made his own fortune, to be the first in scrambling out of it, and each thinking himself wise enough to be able to leave his fellow-adventurers in the lurch.
Page 181 - ... Cobbett's nature the good preponderated vastly over the evil. The influence of his writings was on the whole beneficent, for it was pure, earnest, honest. His many blemishes, both of mind and temper, prevented him from being great. The faults of his education led him into many a hasty judgment. But he kept alive much that was true and just in an age when truth and justice were reduced to struggle for existence.
Page 166 - The turning of coats so common is grown, That no one would think to attack it ; But no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy's turning his jacket.
Page 61 - My dear first born is the greatest ass, the greatest liar, the greatest canaille and the greatest beast in the whole world, and I heartily wish he was out of it.