Historical EssaysHatchard, 1851 - 764 páginas |
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... force . How far he was justified in laying down the sword , it will be for History to decide , but he had at least that con- solation , which Pericles upon his death - bed was proud of , concerning his citizens , " that no Frenchman had ...
... force . How far he was justified in laying down the sword , it will be for History to decide , but he had at least that con- solation , which Pericles upon his death - bed was proud of , concerning his citizens , " that no Frenchman had ...
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... force to dispute the validity of the Charter . Several coups de main , attempted both in Paris and Lyons , were not suppressed by the government without considerable difficulty and loss of life . Lyons , more than once , required ...
... force to dispute the validity of the Charter . Several coups de main , attempted both in Paris and Lyons , were not suppressed by the government without considerable difficulty and loss of life . Lyons , more than once , required ...
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... force . In this condition of mankind , license supplies the place of law , and revenge serves the purposes of justice . Barbarism . This is The second condition in which society can exist , is that of despotism . This form of government ...
... force . In this condition of mankind , license supplies the place of law , and revenge serves the purposes of justice . Barbarism . This is The second condition in which society can exist , is that of despotism . This form of government ...
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... force -it is the dominion of the sword . Under such a form of government , public order is strictly preserved , and property protected ; but every one sacrifices his personal freedom except the chief , who is the supreme authority of ...
... force -it is the dominion of the sword . Under such a form of government , public order is strictly preserved , and property protected ; but every one sacrifices his personal freedom except the chief , who is the supreme authority of ...
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... force for its strength , all arbitrary and unjust viola- tions of the rights of property become mitigated , or abandoned . Any flagrant injustice , committed by the possessors of power , under what may be termed a free government ...
... force for its strength , all arbitrary and unjust viola- tions of the rights of property become mitigated , or abandoned . Any flagrant injustice , committed by the possessors of power , under what may be termed a free government ...
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Página 498 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or, if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 277 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council, and all our proceedings ; then Will shall stand up and say, It must be thus ; then Dick shall reply, Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Página 496 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft, responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Página 498 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Página 491 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Página 496 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels jtiin'd the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Página 204 - O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Página 426 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home.
Página 218 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Página 499 - Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.