Musings Without Method: A Record of 1900-01W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902 - 323 pagini |
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... better for an impertinent knowledge of the accidents which befell a politician whom they do not know ? We must all dine , we must all breakfast — such is the ordinance of fate : if we keep " good company , " so much the better for us ...
... better for an impertinent knowledge of the accidents which befell a politician whom they do not know ? We must all dine , we must all breakfast — such is the ordinance of fate : if we keep " good company , " so much the better for us ...
Pagina 5
... 7512 We quote the table , because it proves , better than pages of argument , the trustful disposition of Sir M. Grant Duff . In a brief five years he invited 7512 per- sons to dine with him ! But why , oh 1900 5 Musings without Method .
... 7512 We quote the table , because it proves , better than pages of argument , the trustful disposition of Sir M. Grant Duff . In a brief five years he invited 7512 per- sons to dine with him ! But why , oh 1900 5 Musings without Method .
Pagina 8
... better for the casual citizen as well as for the national dignity . The very fact that a man has been admitted into distinguished society was once a guarantee that its secrets and its follies would not be blurted elsewhere . But manners ...
... better for the casual citizen as well as for the national dignity . The very fact that a man has been admitted into distinguished society was once a guarantee that its secrets and its follies would not be blurted elsewhere . But manners ...
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... So we have seen the superb spectacle of a young gentleman , who once was an officer and might know better , advising Great Britain not to relinquish the struggle , and asking in dismay 14 Feb. Musings without Method .
... So we have seen the superb spectacle of a young gentleman , who once was an officer and might know better , advising Great Britain not to relinquish the struggle , and asking in dismay 14 Feb. Musings without Method .
Pagina 17
... better than any political argument the present attitude of France ; and we , recognising the amiability of our neighbours , may congratulate ourselves that the vice is hopelessly incurable . Once upon a time , when France was marching ...
... better than any political argument the present attitude of France ; and we , recognising the amiability of our neighbours , may congratulate ourselves that the vice is hopelessly incurable . Once upon a time , when France was marching ...
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Pagina 270 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Pagina 152 - Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Pagina 315 - I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and philosophy had met together. Truth and genius had embraced under the eye and with the sanction of religion.
Pagina 186 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Pagina 186 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there...
Pagina 171 - She appeared, in fact, to be awed, but not daunted, and afterwards the Duke of Wellington told me the same thing, and added that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better.
Pagina 184 - To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a King or royal authority of a Queen as delighted that God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend this kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression.
Pagina 276 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Pagina 154 - IT was at Rome, on the 15th of October, ' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of ' the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars ' were singing vespers in the Temple of Ju'piter that the idea of writing the Decline 'and Fall of the City first started to my 'mind.
Pagina 261 - There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should do nothing else in my life.