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... character . When For three years more Charles Abbott continued at school , and fought his way energetically to the captain- ship . Then it seemed good to his father that since he could not be a singing - man he should become a barber ...
... character . When For three years more Charles Abbott continued at school , and fought his way energetically to the captain- ship . Then it seemed good to his father that since he could not be a singing - man he should become a barber ...
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... character and develop all that is best in a young man's nature . His two most intimate friends were Kenyon ( afterwards Lord Kenyon ) , and Horne Tooke , and all " Grace " is about the last epithet that could fairly be applied to the ...
... character and develop all that is best in a young man's nature . His two most intimate friends were Kenyon ( afterwards Lord Kenyon ) , and Horne Tooke , and all " Grace " is about the last epithet that could fairly be applied to the ...
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... character , and by Bacon's admirers must always be regarded as a shrine full worthy of a pilgrimage . In depth of interest it is second only to the old timbered house at Stratford- on - Avon , just as Bacon in largeness and grasp of ...
... character , and by Bacon's admirers must always be regarded as a shrine full worthy of a pilgrimage . In depth of interest it is second only to the old timbered house at Stratford- on - Avon , just as Bacon in largeness and grasp of ...
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... character , to its strange combination of strength and weakness , of intellectual strength and moral weakness . At the same time , we must not condemn the inconsistency of his conduct as we should condemn a similar inconsistency in the ...
... character , to its strange combination of strength and weakness , of intellectual strength and moral weakness . At the same time , we must not condemn the inconsistency of his conduct as we should condemn a similar inconsistency in the ...
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... character , which , indeed , was pitifully deficient in moral fibre and the elements of true great- ness . Its sole excuse is to be found in his pecuniary difficulties , which would seem to have been very grave , as he was arrested by a ...
... character , which , indeed , was pitifully deficient in moral fibre and the elements of true great- ness . Its sole excuse is to be found in his pecuniary difficulties , which would seem to have been very grave , as he was arrested by a ...
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Learned in the Law (1882): Or Examples and Encouragements from the Lives of ... William Henry Davenport Adams Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Learned in the Law: Or, Examples and Encouragements from the Lives of ... William Henry Davenport Adams Vista de fragmentos - 1882 |
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Página 219 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 205 - 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 100 - It was moved that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.
Página 15 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Página 198 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant?
Página 197 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable as he is one of the most fortunate men of his age, had opened to him in vision that when, in the fourth generation, the third prince of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation which (by the happy issue of moderate and healing...
Página 24 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 127 - To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death.
Página 219 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 198 - What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons?