Critical and historical essays, contributed to The Edinburgh review, 2. kötet |
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... all the worse if it contained fewer snarls against the Whigs of the present day . Not only are these passages out of place in a historical work , but some of them are B on religious subjects seem to have been such as might.
... all the worse if it contained fewer snarls against the Whigs of the present day . Not only are these passages out of place in a historical work , but some of them are B on religious subjects seem to have been such as might.
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... Whigs , that the liberal politicians of the seventeenth century and the greater part of the eighteenth , never ... Whig , new or old , was ever such an idiot as to think that it could be sup- pressed ? Really we might as well say ...
... Whigs , that the liberal politicians of the seventeenth century and the greater part of the eighteenth , never ... Whig , new or old , was ever such an idiot as to think that it could be sup- pressed ? Really we might as well say ...
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... Whigs . Charles had found it necessary to yield to the violence of the public feeling . The Duke of York was on the point of retiring to Holland . " I never , " says Temple , who had seen the abolition of monarchy , the dissolution of ...
... Whigs . Charles had found it necessary to yield to the violence of the public feeling . The Duke of York was on the point of retiring to Holland . " I never , " says Temple , who had seen the abolition of monarchy , the dissolution of ...
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... Whigs ; he did his utmost to save Lord Russell , the victim of the Tories ; and , on the whole , we are inclined to think that his public life , though far indeed from faultless , has as few great stains as that of any politician who ...
... Whigs ; he did his utmost to save Lord Russell , the victim of the Tories ; and , on the whole , we are inclined to think that his public life , though far indeed from faultless , has as few great stains as that of any politician who ...
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... Whig . But this extraordinary ap- pearance of concord was quite delu- sive . The administration itself was distracted by bitter enmities and con- flicting pretensions . The chief object of its members was to depress and supplant each ...
... Whig . But this extraordinary ap- pearance of concord was quite delu- sive . The administration itself was distracted by bitter enmities and con- flicting pretensions . The chief object of its members was to depress and supplant each ...
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235. oldal - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres...
235. oldal - ... unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, •had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man.
235. oldal - ... court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens cequa in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great Proconsul presented himself to his judges.
167. oldal - And just abandoning the ungrateful stage : Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense, I live a rent-charge on his providence. But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit more, nor could my love do less.
340. oldal - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
105. oldal - No mob attacked by regular soldiers was ever more completely routed. The little band of Frenchmen, who alone ventured to confront the English, were swept down the stream of fugitives. In an hour the forces of Surajah Dowlah were dispersed, never to reassemble.
128. oldal - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series from the pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth ; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
343. oldal - So effectually indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always been considered among us as the mark of a fool.
234. oldal - The High Court of Parliament was to sit, according to forms handed down from the days of the Plantagenets, on an Englishman accused of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares, and over the ladies of the princely house of Oude.
181. oldal - I am," said Oliver Cromwell, while sitting to young Lely. " If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling." Even in such a trifle, the great Protector showed both his good sense and his magnanimity. He did not wish all that was characteristic in his countenance to be lost, in the vain attempt to give him the regular features and smooth blooming cheeks of the curl-pated minions of James the First.