Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... Queen , but he has no inclination to abolish the Salic law , though he may think a queen a pretty ornament upon a British throne . Passing over a great many kings , mere tools in the hands of the mayors , who at that period held the ...
... Queen , but he has no inclination to abolish the Salic law , though he may think a queen a pretty ornament upon a British throne . Passing over a great many kings , mere tools in the hands of the mayors , who at that period held the ...
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... Queen Elizabeth's time , four in the afternoon was quite a late dinner hour , and eight o'clock , in 1066 , was not the time when the dessert is brought on the table . William the Conqueror felt that law was the only power capable of ...
... Queen Elizabeth's time , four in the afternoon was quite a late dinner hour , and eight o'clock , in 1066 , was not the time when the dessert is brought on the table . William the Conqueror felt that law was the only power capable of ...
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... queen in power , a queen in will , in appearance , amidst her indolent sons , a queen and how did she govern them ? Memory ! recall that terrible regency ; recall it as a lesson for posterity ; and ye , who question what a queen can ...
... queen in power , a queen in will , in appearance , amidst her indolent sons , a queen and how did she govern them ? Memory ! recall that terrible regency ; recall it as a lesson for posterity ; and ye , who question what a queen can ...
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Rose Ellen Temple. what a queen can really do , either on the side of virtue or vice , bring to mind the Medici . A Queen is upon our British throne , a queen with gentle virtues and feminine attri- butes ; she stoops to please , and ...
Rose Ellen Temple. what a queen can really do , either on the side of virtue or vice , bring to mind the Medici . A Queen is upon our British throne , a queen with gentle virtues and feminine attri- butes ; she stoops to please , and ...
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... Queen Victoria's beloved name , as that of a sovereign whose mild and gentle virtues speak to the heart and mind . Many have been the feats of arms in India which our countrymen may boast of during this reign ; but no ambitious schemes ...
... Queen Victoria's beloved name , as that of a sovereign whose mild and gentle virtues speak to the heart and mind . Many have been the feats of arms in India which our countrymen may boast of during this reign ; but no ambitious schemes ...
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Página 45 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Página 81 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Página 81 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Página 63 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Página 82 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Página 63 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.