Memoir of William Madison Peyton, of Roanoke: Together with Some of His Speeches in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and His Letters in Reference to Secession and the Threatened Civil War in the United States, Etc., EtcJ. Wilson, 1873 - 392 oldal |
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13. oldal
... volatile youth , the games invented to kill time without improvement , he never enjoyed ; but sought for higher gratification in science and meditation . It soon became a common remark of Memoir of William Madison Peyton , 13.
... volatile youth , the games invented to kill time without improvement , he never enjoyed ; but sought for higher gratification in science and meditation . It soon became a common remark of Memoir of William Madison Peyton , 13.
41. oldal
... improvements are all for good , and nothing for evil , let wiser heads and deeper philosophy than mine deter- mine . What remains to me of this bygone age but the F With hearts's memory of old things ? " I cannot Memoir of William ...
... improvements are all for good , and nothing for evil , let wiser heads and deeper philosophy than mine deter- mine . What remains to me of this bygone age but the F With hearts's memory of old things ? " I cannot Memoir of William ...
61. oldal
... improved order of things was introduced into American politics . For the first time since the foundation of the Government and to the no small disgust of the President's best friends . and wisest counsellors , General Jackson announced ...
... improved order of things was introduced into American politics . For the first time since the foundation of the Government and to the no small disgust of the President's best friends . and wisest counsellors , General Jackson announced ...
87. oldal
... improvement to be derived from his conversation , to consult him upon State or Federal politics , and not to ... improving his city , supporting learned men , and collecting all kinds of literary treasures ; large numbers of persons were ...
... improvement to be derived from his conversation , to consult him upon State or Federal politics , and not to ... improving his city , supporting learned men , and collecting all kinds of literary treasures ; large numbers of persons were ...
89. oldal
... improved with exquisite taste , and yet so consummate was the art by which it was done , that the hand of man was unseen , and it appeared but nature's work . M Shaded by noble trees and intricate bowers , enamelled with Memoir of ...
... improved with exquisite taste , and yet so consummate was the art by which it was done , that the hand of man was unseen , and it appeared but nature's work . M Shaded by noble trees and intricate bowers , enamelled with Memoir of ...
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231. oldal - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
210. oldal - But wherefore do you hold me here so long ? What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently : For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
9. oldal - Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
88. oldal - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
42. oldal - I will bear my sorrows like a man, But I must also feel them as a man. I cannot but remember such things were, And were most dear to me.
59. oldal - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
244. oldal - The whole South is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia, after a long struggle, has been drawn, and though I recognize no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed, yet in my own person I had to meet the question, whether I should take part against my native State.
231. oldal - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more.
89. oldal - The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter — that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences...
35. oldal - Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, they are the life, the soul of reading : take them out of this book, for instance, you might as well take the book along with them ; one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it : restore them to the writer, — he steps forth like a bridegroom, — bids All hail ; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.