Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... lesson . Let us now pass over two reigns ; which brings us to that of Philip the Third of France , contemporary with Edward the First of England . His reign was scandalously cor- rupt ; the features of the cruelty of that period will ...
... lesson . Let us now pass over two reigns ; which brings us to that of Philip the Third of France , contemporary with Edward the First of England . His reign was scandalously cor- rupt ; the features of the cruelty of that period will ...
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... lesson in the history of his misfortunes ; and remote as the period may be , we could , were it not too per- sonal , compare the way in which he was * Vide the " Cinque Ports . " treated as a prisoner in England , with the modern RIGHT ...
... lesson in the history of his misfortunes ; and remote as the period may be , we could , were it not too per- sonal , compare the way in which he was * Vide the " Cinque Ports . " treated as a prisoner in England , with the modern RIGHT ...
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... 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 really do , either on the RIGHT AND MIGHT . 19.
... 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 really do , either on the RIGHT AND MIGHT . 19.
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... lesson to restore the king to his senses ; but he mistook the mode- ration for cowardice , and forgot , that whereas men from the earliest history of the world were endued with a spirit for fighting , policy is an acquired principle ...
... lesson to restore the king to his senses ; but he mistook the mode- ration for cowardice , and forgot , that whereas men from the earliest history of the world were endued with a spirit for fighting , policy is an acquired principle ...
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... of want reads his first lesson of discontent , the labourer sues for more than he had otherwise wished for , the poor look upon the rich as a vast assembly of tyrants , and curse them in their hearts , 28 POLITICAL FAME .
... of want reads his first lesson of discontent , the labourer sues for more than he had otherwise wished for , the poor look upon the rich as a vast assembly of tyrants , and curse them in their hearts , 28 POLITICAL FAME .
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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.