Tales of Our Great Families, Volumen 2Hurst and Blackett, 1877 |
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... respect on account of his personal character and those domestic virtues which were rarer among great personages under George II . than under Victoria . His son , too , Thomas , the second lord , was a man of high political abilities ...
... respect on account of his personal character and those domestic virtues which were rarer among great personages under George II . than under Victoria . His son , too , Thomas , the second lord , was a man of high political abilities ...
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... respecting his cousin , sat up before the fire in the drawing - room , with his feet on the fender , and quietly dropped asleep . He was roused , however , by Lord Lyttelton's servant rushing into the room and saying , ' Help , help ...
... respecting his cousin , sat up before the fire in the drawing - room , with his feet on the fender , and quietly dropped asleep . He was roused , however , by Lord Lyttelton's servant rushing into the room and saying , ' Help , help ...
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... respect to this " claimant " a curious story is told by Sir Harris Nicolas in his " Historic Peerage . " Though his father had been restored , yet on the son claiming it as his successor , he is said to have been unjustly denied the ...
... respect to this " claimant " a curious story is told by Sir Harris Nicolas in his " Historic Peerage . " Though his father had been restored , yet on the son claiming it as his successor , he is said to have been unjustly denied the ...
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... respect to the Irish Church . His Grace was a zealous agriculturist , and was one of the founders of the Royal Agricultural Society of England , of which society he was a trustee . Both on his large domains in Sussex and in Scotland he ...
... respect to the Irish Church . His Grace was a zealous agriculturist , and was one of the founders of the Royal Agricultural Society of England , of which society he was a trustee . Both on his large domains in Sussex and in Scotland he ...
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... respect for parsons , or indeed , I fear , it must be added , for religion in any shape ; but scattered up and down his two volumes are to be found many useful hints as to the necessity of purging the theatres of vice and and the ...
... respect for parsons , or indeed , I fear , it must be added , for religion in any shape ; but scattered up and down his two volumes are to be found many useful hints as to the necessity of purging the theatres of vice and and the ...
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Página 226 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 247 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Página 26 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 108 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 27 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 51 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...