Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... honour and integrity " keep the weather of his fate , " and law - not law in all its petty tyranny , but law restrained by reason — is the bulwark of our country and the defender of our rights . If historic revelation has as much truth ...
... honour and integrity " keep the weather of his fate , " and law - not law in all its petty tyranny , but law restrained by reason — is the bulwark of our country and the defender of our rights . If historic revelation has as much truth ...
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... broils are the result , not of mili- tary disturbances , but want of honour amongst those who dictate in the council . We are especially told in history , that Pharamond was 66 cian . " Now it is not POLITICAL FAME .
... broils are the result , not of mili- tary disturbances , but want of honour amongst those who dictate in the council . We are especially told in history , that Pharamond was 66 cian . " Now it is not POLITICAL FAME .
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... honour , " made Edward trust his prisoner , and when the unfortunate Dauphin , returning to his native country , found himself deficient of the required ransom , he returned broken - hearted , but with unstained honour to his English ...
... honour , " made Edward trust his prisoner , and when the unfortunate Dauphin , returning to his native country , found himself deficient of the required ransom , he returned broken - hearted , but with unstained honour to his English ...
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Rose Ellen Temple. honour under worldly instead of mental regulations . We have a powerful argument before us , in the struggle between the friends of Henry the Sixth of England , in their endeavours to esta- blish him on the French ...
Rose Ellen Temple. honour under worldly instead of mental regulations . We have a powerful argument before us , in the struggle between the friends of Henry the Sixth of England , in their endeavours to esta- blish him on the French ...
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... honour consists not in unlimited worship of self ; the barriers of society and law will never be infringed , except for ambitious , tyrannic motives : a monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of his army than the sagacity of ...
... honour consists not in unlimited worship of self ; the barriers of society and law will never be infringed , except for ambitious , tyrannic motives : a monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of his army than the sagacity of ...
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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.