Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... turn their eyes to our country , behold now a queen is on the 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 ...
... turn their eyes to our country , behold now a queen is on the 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 ...
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... turn had to defeat that rival's son . Louis the Fifth , the last of the Carlovingian race , died hated , and the nobility raised Hugh Capet to the throne . We have only one law to notice ere we touch upon the contemporary of the Norman ...
... turn had to defeat that rival's son . Louis the Fifth , the last of the Carlovingian race , died hated , and the nobility raised Hugh Capet to the throne . We have only one law to notice ere we touch upon the contemporary of the Norman ...
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... turning half our life literally into darkness . But be it not forgotten , that as late as 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 ...
... turning half our life literally into darkness . But be it not forgotten , that as late as 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 ...
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... turn sceptically from one fact , that all rebellious monarchs are the weakest - minded , which shows us at once that the loftiest mind is the most ready to submit to useful government ; and , as a general rule , to govern is to be ...
... turn sceptically from one fact , that all rebellious monarchs are the weakest - minded , which shows us at once that the loftiest mind is the most ready to submit to useful government ; and , as a general rule , to govern is to be ...
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... turn . Patiently , diligently , and cou- rageously follow the path which may not always lead to eminence or popularity , but bear in mind that as the million , countless of millions , grains of sand , consist actually of grain upon ...
... turn . Patiently , diligently , and cou- rageously follow the path which may not always lead to eminence or popularity , but bear in mind that as the million , countless of millions , grains of sand , consist actually of grain upon ...
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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.