Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... throne the sceptre of justice is wielded by a womanly , but a Christianlike power , and albeit the sovereign holds most marked supremacy , each British subject is lord of England's destiny , and the architect of her fortune . 1 ...
... throne the sceptre of justice is wielded by a womanly , but a Christianlike power , and albeit the sovereign holds most marked supremacy , each British subject is lord of England's destiny , and the architect of her fortune . 1 ...
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... throne ; his politics awed , subdued , and conquered ; for those laws which to us seem strange and barbarous , appeared in a totally different light to the untutored hearts of that period . By following closely the thread of French ...
... throne ; his politics awed , subdued , and conquered ; for those laws which to us seem strange and barbarous , appeared in a totally different light to the untutored hearts of that period . By following closely the thread of French ...
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... throne , if they can exclaim " a wo- man , " let them also add a just woman and a Christian . But , " vide et crede , " was never a Frenchman's motto . Louis Philippe bestowed a paternal embrace , and paid a great many French ...
... throne , if they can exclaim " a wo- man , " let them also add a just woman and a Christian . But , " vide et crede , " was never a Frenchman's motto . Louis Philippe bestowed a paternal embrace , and paid a great many French ...
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... throne . We have only one law to notice ere we touch upon the contemporary of the Norman Conqueror , we allude to the law against duel- ling , which Henry the First instituted . The just humanity of this act has been so fre- quently ...
... throne . We have only one law to notice ere we touch upon the contemporary of the Norman Conqueror , we allude to the law against duel- ling , which Henry the First instituted . The just humanity of this act has been so fre- quently ...
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... throne , and the heroic devotion of the Maid of Orleans , endeavouring to restore Charles the Sixth's Dauphin to the right of his forefathers . We are not disposed to enter upon a critical essay , to prove whether the heroine was ...
... throne , and the heroic devotion of the Maid of Orleans , endeavouring to restore Charles the Sixth's Dauphin to the right of his forefathers . We are not disposed to enter upon a critical essay , to prove whether the heroine was ...
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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.