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... king of that country , should be appealed to by all parties , and the only living statesman that wore a crown , should find himself in the proud but dangerous position of arbiter of Europe . In this emer- gency he relied upon himself ...
... king of that country , should be appealed to by all parties , and the only living statesman that wore a crown , should find himself in the proud but dangerous position of arbiter of Europe . In this emer- gency he relied upon himself ...
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... king who was cut down in the plenitude of his strength and his power , on the very eve of entering actively upon the conduct of his great design for curb- ing the power of the House of Austria and establishing on a firm basis the peace ...
... king who was cut down in the plenitude of his strength and his power , on the very eve of entering actively upon the conduct of his great design for curb- ing the power of the House of Austria and establishing on a firm basis the peace ...
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... King on the mighty undertaking he had in hand . An account of this embassy forms an interesting episode in these vol- umes . The reports of the conferences of the embassy with the King were taken down by the commissioners at the time ...
... King on the mighty undertaking he had in hand . An account of this embassy forms an interesting episode in these vol- umes . The reports of the conferences of the embassy with the King were taken down by the commissioners at the time ...
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... King before the world two days before the King's departure . and before history , prepared to strike his Henry himself was beset with strange great blow for the abasement of the and dark presentiments respecting this House of Austria ...
... King before the world two days before the King's departure . and before history , prepared to strike his Henry himself was beset with strange great blow for the abasement of the and dark presentiments respecting this House of Austria ...
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... king , was wavering in his fidelity to Spain and tempted by French promises . Most pitiful was the condition of France on the day after , and for years after , the murder of the king . Not only was the kingdom for the time being effaced ...
... king , was wavering in his fidelity to Spain and tempted by French promises . Most pitiful was the condition of France on the day after , and for years after , the murder of the king . Not only was the kingdom for the time being effaced ...
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Page 509 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 113 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth : — It is the hour of feeling. One moment now may give us more Than years of toiling reason : Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season.
Page 501 - ... religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor I even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete ! than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life.
Page 382 - Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror, That were the servants to this chosen infant, Shall then be his , and like a vine grow to him : Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations: J1 he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him.
Page 400 - Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war...
Page 381 - Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself, So shall she leave her blessedness to one...
Page 501 - The tradition of followers suffices to insert any number of marvels, and may have inserted all the miracles which he is reputed to have wrought. l.ut who among his disciples or among their proselytes was capable of inventing the sayings ascribed to Jesus, or of imagining the life and character revealed in the Gospels ? Certainly not the fishermen of Galilee ; as certainly not St.
Page 359 - tis a bad omen. — Do not weep, my dear Lady; — your tears are too precious to shed for me; — bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn ! — Dearest, kindest, gentlest, and best of women! may health, peace, and happiness, prove your handmaids ! — If I die, cherish the remembrance of me, and forget the follies which you so often condemned, — which my heart, not my head, betrayed me into.
Page 512 - He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking ; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking. And when religious sects ran mad He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad It will not be improved by burning.
Page 515 - And a terrible heart-thrill, If you have no power of giving: An arm of aid to the weak, A friendly hand to the friendless, Kind words, so short to speak, But whose echo is endless: The world is wide, — these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are All.