Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales: Lothair |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
acquaintance admire affairs Aldegonde Apollonia arrived Aryan race battle of Mentana beautiful believe Bertram Bishop Brancepeth Brentham Cantacuzene Caprera Cardinal CHAPTER charm Church Colonel Campian companion conversation countenance Crecy House dance daughter dear delighted dine dinner divine Duchess Duke of Brecon Eminence England entered Euphrosyne everything exclaimed eyes Father Coleman favoured feel garden gentleman gonde Grace Grandchester guests hand happy heard heart Holy hope hour Hugo Bohun interest Jerome Jerusalem Lady Corisande Lady St looked Lord Carisbrooke Lord Culloden Lord St Lordship Lothair Madame Phoebus married Miss Arundel Monsignore Catesby Montairy morning nature never once passed perhaps person Phœbus present priests Prince Princess Putney Giles recognised religion Roman Roman Republic Rome saloon scene seat seemed sisters society sometimes speak talk tell Theodora things thought tion to-day to-morrow truth Vauxe voice wish young
Népszerű szakaszok
x. oldal - ... to establish a commercial code on the principles successfully negotiated by Lord Bolingbroke at Utrecht, and which, though baffled at the time by a Whig Parliament, were subsequently and triumphantly vindicated by his political pupil and heir, Mr.
137. oldal - Books are fatal ; they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
137. oldal - What I admire in the order to which you belong is that they do live in the air; that they excel in athletic sports; that they can only speak one language; and that they never read. This is not a complete education, but it is the highest education since the Greek.
xv. oldal - It cannot be denied that the aspect of the world and this country, to those who have faith in the spiritual nature of man, is at this time dark and distressful. They listen to doubts, and even denials, of an active Providence ; what is styled Materialism is in the ascendant. To those who believe that an atheistical society, though it may be polished and amiable, involves the seeds of anarchy, the prospect is full of gloom.
xiv. oldal - ... health and knowledge of the multitude as not the least precious part of the wealth of nations. In asserting the doctrine of race, they were entirely opposed to the equality of man, and similar abstract dogmas, which have destroyed ancient society without creating a satisfactory substitute. Eesting on popular sympathies and , popular privileges, they held that no society could be ' durable unless it was built upon the principles of loyalty and religious reverence.
429. oldal - Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally occasion ourselves.
142. oldal - I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
xiii. oldal - ... people which had been the consequence of them ; the duties of the Church as a main remedial agency in our present state ; were the three principal topics which I intended to treat ; but I found they were too vast for the space I had allotted to myself." These were all launched in