Musings Without Method: A Record of 1900-01W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902 - 323 pagini |
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... proved what the booksellers term " a book of the season , " has taken the world into his confidence with even greater candour . Had another uncovered Sir Algernon's life with equal circumstance , the victim would have had every right to ...
... proved what the booksellers term " a book of the season , " has taken the world into his confidence with even greater candour . Had another uncovered Sir Algernon's life with equal circumstance , the victim would have had every right to ...
Pagina 12
... prove himself the staunchest ally of his country's enemies . So long as he has full licence , it is idle to close Delagoa Bay . He prints the news ; the spies of Kruger telegraph it hot - hand to Pretoria ; and our enemies within twenty ...
... prove himself the staunchest ally of his country's enemies . So long as he has full licence , it is idle to close Delagoa Bay . He prints the news ; the spies of Kruger telegraph it hot - hand to Pretoria ; and our enemies within twenty ...
Pagina 14
... prove its horror of shameless indiscretion by refusing to read a paper which was disloyal to the interests of the country . But our citizens are creatures of habit , and they do not easily change their journal . Nor is the offence new ...
... prove its horror of shameless indiscretion by refusing to read a paper which was disloyal to the interests of the country . But our citizens are creatures of habit , and they do not easily change their journal . Nor is the offence new ...
Pagina 23
... which he made when he was received into the Academy proved , in spite of itself , the folly of the Boulevards . Quoting M. Hervé , whose eulogy it was his fortune to 99 pronounce , he said : " It is only 1900 23 Musings without Method .
... which he made when he was received into the Academy proved , in spite of itself , the folly of the Boulevards . Quoting M. Hervé , whose eulogy it was his fortune to 99 pronounce , he said : " It is only 1900 23 Musings without Method .
Pagina 27
... prove himself the distinguished Head of a House , and William Whewell may certainly claim without at least some of the glory which was his within the walls of Trinity College . For there is no doubt that Dr Whewell was , in the limits ...
... prove himself the distinguished Head of a House , and William Whewell may certainly claim without at least some of the glory which was his within the walls of Trinity College . For there is no doubt that Dr Whewell was , in the limits ...
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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.