Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... and rival , Henry the First of England had consderable abilities , but his moral conduct was rather a slave to a power- ful , but ill - directed , mind , than the well- trained discipline of the highest gift of man , - 12 POLITICAL FAME .
... and rival , Henry the First of England had consderable abilities , but his moral conduct was rather a slave to a power- ful , but ill - directed , mind , than the well- trained discipline of the highest gift of man , - 12 POLITICAL FAME .
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... abilities ; still their lives were spent in a continued struggle , the jealousy of actual strength was the vaulting ambition of both- an ambition which can only be sustained by an equal sway of rule and courage : the latter was the ...
... abilities ; still their lives were spent in a continued struggle , the jealousy of actual strength was the vaulting ambition of both- an ambition which can only be sustained by an equal sway of rule and courage : the latter was the ...
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... abilities— abilities which , as misused talents , must be accounted for at a high and impartial tribunal . A melancholy feeling sheds itself over the mind when retrospecting Catherine's gency . re- She stood a queen in power , a queen ...
... abilities— abilities which , as misused talents , must be accounted for at a high and impartial tribunal . A melancholy feeling sheds itself over the mind when retrospecting Catherine's gency . re- She stood a queen in power , a queen ...
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... abilities , quickly fell a prey to the powerful man's supe- rior cunning . Nevertheless , we cannot palliate that which must ever be a blot upon English history ; Charles the First set law at defiance , and found military power a ...
... abilities , quickly fell a prey to the powerful man's supe- rior cunning . Nevertheless , we cannot palliate that which must ever be a blot upon English history ; Charles the First set law at defiance , and found military power a ...
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... abilities and rectitude of principles , in a politician , cast a wavering feeling upon our minds , we would fain that all feuds were over ; that by no name , save the people's friend , should the politician ever be distinguished . But ...
... abilities and rectitude of principles , in a politician , cast a wavering feeling upon our minds , we would fain that all feuds were over ; that by no name , save the people's friend , should the politician ever be distinguished . But ...
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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.