Musings Without Method: A Record of 1900-01W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902 - 323 pagini |
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... less wisely inspired than the Greville of their contempt . They do not wait for the grave to close over them , before they make their candid confession . On the contrary , they realise the demand that has been created by the daily paper ...
... less wisely inspired than the Greville of their contempt . They do not wait for the grave to close over them , before they make their candid confession . On the contrary , they realise the demand that has been created by the daily paper ...
Pagina 6
... less are we pleased when we note that he habitually employs nicknames in a work in- tended not for his friends , but for the public . This freedom would be called bad manners in a journalist , and it would be so called with perfect ...
... less are we pleased when we note that he habitually employs nicknames in a work in- tended not for his friends , but for the public . This freedom would be called bad manners in a journalist , and it would be so called with perfect ...
Pagina 20
... less than 2000 English soldiers have been arrested dying of hunger in Portuguese territory , and doubtless the inference is that the same country which left India to perish of famine is quite content to starve its drunken mercenaries ...
... less than 2000 English soldiers have been arrested dying of hunger in Portuguese territory , and doubtless the inference is that the same country which left India to perish of famine is quite content to starve its drunken mercenaries ...
Pagina 25
... less beast , who would devour his fellows not with his teeth but with his tongue . His worst trait is his anxiety to solace your dying hours ( as he esteems them ) with inaccurate information . He says , in effect : " Thank God , the ...
... less beast , who would devour his fellows not with his teeth but with his tongue . His worst trait is his anxiety to solace your dying hours ( as he esteems them ) with inaccurate information . He says , in effect : " Thank God , the ...
Pagina 30
... less meritorious ; they would , of course , have inflamed the ire of the jealous Radical and given some colour to the popular charges . For all that , they still attract us ; and we pray that in some corner of Cambridge there lurks a ...
... less meritorious ; they would , of course , have inflamed the ire of the jealous Radical and given some colour to the popular charges . For all that , they still attract us ; and we pray that in some corner of Cambridge there lurks a ...
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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.