Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern MusicE. Bliss & E. White, 1824 - 351 páginas |
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... England , of catholic institutions for education . The first , which acquired any thing like celebrity , was at Twyford in Hampshire ; it had the honour of furnishing Mr. Pope with his first rudiments of learning : the school at ...
... England , of catholic institutions for education . The first , which acquired any thing like celebrity , was at Twyford in Hampshire ; it had the honour of furnishing Mr. Pope with his first rudiments of learning : the school at ...
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... England , and that their plan of education has been materially improved . Reading , arithmetic , geography , and modern history , are syste- matically taught ; and due regard is shown to manners . On two accounts , -cheapness and ...
... England , and that their plan of education has been materially improved . Reading , arithmetic , geography , and modern history , are syste- matically taught ; and due regard is shown to manners . On two accounts , -cheapness and ...
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... England , or a parish in London , in which all his English and all his Latin odes , and his incomparable elegy , might not be supplied , by the recollections of some of their inhabitants . How very little of Goldsmith is known by heart ...
... England , or a parish in London , in which all his English and all his Latin odes , and his incomparable elegy , might not be supplied , by the recollections of some of their inhabitants . How very little of Goldsmith is known by heart ...
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... England . A reflection , highly honourable both to the wisdom and purity of the English constitution , will perhaps here suggest itself to him ! * It did honour to Suidas to make this observation , and to Mon- tesquieu to feel its ...
... England . A reflection , highly honourable both to the wisdom and purity of the English constitution , will perhaps here suggest itself to him ! * It did honour to Suidas to make this observation , and to Mon- tesquieu to feel its ...
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... England bears any resemblance . On other occasions , the French par- liaments interpreted the law , as it is generally done in courts of justice , by decisions on dubious points . Their interpretations of it by arrêts was frequently ...
... England bears any resemblance . On other occasions , the French par- liaments interpreted the law , as it is generally done in courts of justice , by decisions on dubious points . Their interpretations of it by arrêts was frequently ...
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Página 132 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Página 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 173 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, — without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of...
Página 133 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
Página 172 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals...
Página 131 - I CANNOT, my lords, I WILL NOT join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH.
Página 173 - ... respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.
Página 76 - Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Página 80 - Nor has he dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. King, lords, and commons, are but the sport of his fury.
Página 23 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...