The English nation; or, A history of England in the lives of Englishmen, Volume 5A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 |
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... celebrated ode of Horace Otium divos rogat , ' & c . The translation of Mr Hastings is superior to them all . He wrote the following lines in Mickle's excellent version of the Lusiad of Camoens , to be inserted at the end of the speech ...
... celebrated ode of Horace Otium divos rogat , ' & c . The translation of Mr Hastings is superior to them all . He wrote the following lines in Mickle's excellent version of the Lusiad of Camoens , to be inserted at the end of the speech ...
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... celebrated declaration that the king , lords , and commons of Ireland only could make laws to bind Ireland . Mr Grattan's popularity was now at a height almost without exam- ple . The achievement of a nation's independence by an ...
... celebrated declaration that the king , lords , and commons of Ireland only could make laws to bind Ireland . Mr Grattan's popularity was now at a height almost without exam- ple . The achievement of a nation's independence by an ...
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... celebrated , they must act under the peculiar disadvantage of speaking , as it might be said , in the presence of posterity , which must review , and might reverse , their decision . Having stated these conditions , he had only to add ...
... celebrated , they must act under the peculiar disadvantage of speaking , as it might be said , in the presence of posterity , which must review , and might reverse , their decision . Having stated these conditions , he had only to add ...
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... celebrated proposals which were then offered to the house of commons in Ireland by an agent of the crown , and which are still remembered and execrated in that country by the name of Orde's Propositions , one was , " that the parliament ...
... celebrated proposals which were then offered to the house of commons in Ireland by an agent of the crown , and which are still remembered and execrated in that country by the name of Orde's Propositions , one was , " that the parliament ...
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... celebrated character now living , I suppose to have written conjointly with Mr Boyd the letters of Junius , for they were much together , the table was always covered with papers , and they were always writing , being always ...
... celebrated character now living , I suppose to have written conjointly with Mr Boyd the letters of Junius , for they were much together , the table was always covered with papers , and they were always writing , being always ...
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Page 188 - There is a lad here which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes ; but what are they among so many ? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down.
Page 374 - The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal...
Page 190 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.
Page 34 - I have lived to it ; I could almost say, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. — I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever ; and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it. — I have lived to see Thirty Millions of People, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible...
Page 374 - It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Page 187 - What reward ? St. Nicholas Within or St. Nicholas Without ! The curse of Swift is upon him to have been born an Irishman ; to have possessed a genius, and to have used his talents for the good of his country.
Page 102 - It is ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince Re-gent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty...
Page 445 - I was indebted to chance alone for stumbling upon his hidingplace. I sat up for the greatest part of several nights successively, and, before he suspected that his treatise was discovered, had completely mastered it. I could now enter upon my own ; and that carried me pretty far into the science.
Page 63 - In speaking then of commodities, of their exchangeable value, and of the laws which regulate their relative prices, we mean always such commodities only as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of human industry, and on the production of which competition operates without restraint.
Page 160 - ... most important concerns of society, where he can boldly publish his judgment on the acts of the proudest and most powerful tyrants. The press of England is still free. It is guarded by the free constitution of our forefathers. It is guarded by the hearts and arms of Englishmen, and I trust I may venture to say, that if it be to fall, it will fall only under the ruins of the British empire.