The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...: Gustavus AdolphusC. Knight, 1837 |
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capable by the charm of his name and the power of his talents to com- pete with Gustavus , and he was Wallenstein . In his retirement that wildly ambitious man had long been scheming to bring his master to such a degree of abasement as ...
capable by the charm of his name and the power of his talents to com- pete with Gustavus , and he was Wallenstein . In his retirement that wildly ambitious man had long been scheming to bring his master to such a degree of abasement as ...
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... talents , certainly by advice , and , some say , even by manual help . The outlines of Antonio's plates after Raphael have been said to be executed by the painter himself : but this is solely conjecture ; and it appears improbable that ...
... talents , certainly by advice , and , some say , even by manual help . The outlines of Antonio's plates after Raphael have been said to be executed by the painter himself : but this is solely conjecture ; and it appears improbable that ...
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... believe that a readiness in cal- culation was the talent of his childhood , and that nature had qualified him to succeed in that branch of application . He was presented to Voltaire , at that time resident 26 GIBBON .
... believe that a readiness in cal- culation was the talent of his childhood , and that nature had qualified him to succeed in that branch of application . He was presented to Voltaire , at that time resident 26 GIBBON .
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... talents ) may be ascribed to his own singular improvidence . He had been afflicted above thirty years by a disease requiring surgical assist- ance , which he altogether neglected till it became incurable . He died January 16 , 1794 , at ...
... talents ) may be ascribed to his own singular improvidence . He had been afflicted above thirty years by a disease requiring surgical assist- ance , which he altogether neglected till it became incurable . He died January 16 , 1794 , at ...
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... contemporaries than the two Scaligers . Julius Cæsar Scaliger , the elder , was as singular a mixture of great talent , learning , vanity , and presumption , as the world has Engrad by E.Wagsta JOSEPH SCALIGER . a rint Bhelencher Under.
... contemporaries than the two Scaligers . Julius Cæsar Scaliger , the elder , was as singular a mixture of great talent , learning , vanity , and presumption , as the world has Engrad by E.Wagsta JOSEPH SCALIGER . a rint Bhelencher Under.
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27. oldal - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
56. oldal - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
113. oldal - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
141. oldal - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
62. oldal - I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America.
59. oldal - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
22. oldal - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
61. oldal - To withdraw, in the fulness of his power, and in the utmost gratification of his ambition, from the House of Commons (which procured him his power, and which could alone insure it to him), and to go into that Hospital of Incurables, the House of Lords, is a measure so unaccountable, that nothing but proof positive could have made me believe it : but true it is.
26. oldal - Catholic church is the sign and test of infallible truth. To my present feelings it seems incredible that I should ever believe that I believed in transubstantiation. But my conqueror oppressed me with the sacramental words, "Hoc est corpus meum...
187. oldal - I, therefore, came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Anne Page : " There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance...