Great Movements, and Those who Achieved Them, Volumen 20Harper & Brothers, 1882 - 487 páginas |
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... success- ful candidates ; and in the end it was found that he had lost the seat by only four votes . Howard appears to have felt his defeat not a little ; but we cannot think it was at all an un- fortunate circumstance . He would never ...
... success- ful candidates ; and in the end it was found that he had lost the seat by only four votes . Howard appears to have felt his defeat not a little ; but we cannot think it was at all an un- fortunate circumstance . He would never ...
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... success in my endeavors . ' ' It is from your kind aid and assistance , my dear friend , that I derive so much of my character and influence ; I exult in declaring it , and shall carry a grateful sense of it to the last hours of my ...
... success in my endeavors . ' ' It is from your kind aid and assistance , my dear friend , that I derive so much of my character and influence ; I exult in declaring it , and shall carry a grateful sense of it to the last hours of my ...
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... success which might have been expected from it . The most effectual way to prevent the greater crimes is by punishing the smaller , and by endeavoring to repress that gen- eral spirit of licentiousness which is the parent of every ...
... success which might have been expected from it . The most effectual way to prevent the greater crimes is by punishing the smaller , and by endeavoring to repress that gen- eral spirit of licentiousness which is the parent of every ...
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... success . Within a few days the first edition was out of print , and within half a year 7500 copies had been sold . Twenty editions of it were sold before the copyright had expired . No doubt ( though the intrinsic merits of the work ...
... success . Within a few days the first edition was out of print , and within half a year 7500 copies had been sold . Twenty editions of it were sold before the copyright had expired . No doubt ( though the intrinsic merits of the work ...
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... success as entailing more true glory on their administration , and greater honor and advantage on their country , than any other measure in which they could be engaged . Fox , more- over , declared that though he had sat in the House ...
... success as entailing more true glory on their administration , and greater honor and advantage on their country , than any other measure in which they could be engaged . Fox , more- over , declared that though he had sat in the House ...
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Página 59 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond...
Página 13 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Página 135 - ... the blow that rends its kindred throne! You have said, my lords, you have willed — the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service! She has, instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble...
Página 273 - That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance : If every just man, that now pines with want, Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store...
Página 136 - ... kindred Throne ! You have said, my Lords, you have willed — -the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service. She has instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble supplications at the Throne of Mercy, that that mercy may be poured down upon the people, in a larger measure than the merits of its rulers may deserve, and that your hearts may be turned to justice.
Página 23 - Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations." BOSWELL. "Sir, do you think him as bad a man as Voltaire?" JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
Página 439 - You Enterprised a Railroad through the valley — you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. The valley is gone, and the Gods with it; and now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange — you Fools Everywhere.
Página 409 - ... effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine,...
Página 432 - The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.
Página 247 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.