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... tion which should have burst upon the heads of the monstrous governments of Rome and Naples , was made to swell the tide of fury against the far more venial peccadilloes of Vienna . Whether this confusion was produced by Cavour's clever ...
... tion which should have burst upon the heads of the monstrous governments of Rome and Naples , was made to swell the tide of fury against the far more venial peccadilloes of Vienna . Whether this confusion was produced by Cavour's clever ...
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... tion , an exception from the usual order of things , that was not likely to recur . When it was over , men returned to their old fond delusion , and again suffered themselves to believe in lasting peace . The treaty of Villafranca has ...
... tion , an exception from the usual order of things , that was not likely to recur . When it was over , men returned to their old fond delusion , and again suffered themselves to believe in lasting peace . The treaty of Villafranca has ...
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one to attain . Our ungainly mixture of panic - struck prepara- tion for defence , with honeyed assurances of undiminished confi- dence , show that the Emperor's estimate of our sensibility to threats , though uncomplimentary , was ...
one to attain . Our ungainly mixture of panic - struck prepara- tion for defence , with honeyed assurances of undiminished confi- dence , show that the Emperor's estimate of our sensibility to threats , though uncomplimentary , was ...
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... tion of its title or the justification of its acts . The old motto , ' Sic volo , sic jubeo , stet pro ratione voluntas , ' is altogether for- gotten and obsolete . Whenever it perpetrates any atrocity or folly of a quality more than ...
... tion of its title or the justification of its acts . The old motto , ' Sic volo , sic jubeo , stet pro ratione voluntas , ' is altogether for- gotten and obsolete . Whenever it perpetrates any atrocity or folly of a quality more than ...
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... tion there , for it was gratis , nor because of the ripeness of his learning ; but it had become necessary that he should con- tribute to his own maintenance , and , according to varying traditions , he was an usher in the school where ...
... tion there , for it was gratis , nor because of the ripeness of his learning ; but it had become necessary that he should con- tribute to his own maintenance , and , according to varying traditions , he was an usher in the school where ...
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Page 40 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 442 - ... inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Page 227 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may ; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Page 88 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.
Page 429 - ... perhaps, who, indeed, are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Page 189 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea...