The Diorama of Life, Or, The Macrocosm and Microcosm Displayed: Characteristic Sketches and Anecdotes of Men and ThingsE. Barrett, 1824 - 365 páginas |
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... death , and again felt a new return of tenderness . At last she gave her consent to his exe- cution , and was never seen to enjoy one happy day more . CATHARINE I. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA . It is well known that the birth of this celebrated ...
... death , and again felt a new return of tenderness . At last she gave her consent to his exe- cution , and was never seen to enjoy one happy day more . CATHARINE I. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA . It is well known that the birth of this celebrated ...
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... death by his judges , on a promise that he should not suffer . He was con- ducted to the scaffold , where he was again solicited in vain to betray his friend . He had no sooner laid his head on the block , than a voice was heard crying ...
... death by his judges , on a promise that he should not suffer . He was con- ducted to the scaffold , where he was again solicited in vain to betray his friend . He had no sooner laid his head on the block , than a voice was heard crying ...
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... death might have thrown me . Another time , know better the persons with whom you have to do . Iam , thank God , at present as much master of myself as I ever was . I persist in saying , that M. de Château- neuf is an honest man , and ...
... death might have thrown me . Another time , know better the persons with whom you have to do . Iam , thank God , at present as much master of myself as I ever was . I persist in saying , that M. de Château- neuf is an honest man , and ...
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... death were brought to the first consul , in the midst of the hottest of the engage- ment , he was much affected ; and it was one of his earliest commands after the victory , that a splendid monument should be erected to the fallen hero ...
... death were brought to the first consul , in the midst of the hottest of the engage- ment , he was much affected ; and it was one of his earliest commands after the victory , that a splendid monument should be erected to the fallen hero ...
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... death ; at the same time he was astonished how he had got the intelligence , though he was too sufficiently acquainted with the art and subtlety of his master to suspect the truth of it . To prevent , how- ever , any disaster from ...
... death ; at the same time he was astonished how he had got the intelligence , though he was too sufficiently acquainted with the art and subtlety of his master to suspect the truth of it . To prevent , how- ever , any disaster from ...
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Página 241 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 259 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look! in this place ran Cassius...
Página 69 - He struck it out. A third said he thought the words 'for ready money' were useless, as it was not the custom of the place to sell on credit. Every one who purchased expected to pay. They were parted with, and the inscription now stood, 'John Thompson sells hats.
Página 138 - The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity ; men started at the intelligence and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend.
Página 139 - ... vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. He has left us, not indeed his mantle of inspiration, but a name and an example, which are at this hour inspiring hundreds of the youth of England : a name which is our pride, and an example which will continue to be our shield and our strength.
Página 69 - With a figure of a hat subjoined; but he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to thought the word "Hatter" tautologous, because followed by the words "makes hats,
Página 139 - The most triumphant death is that of a martyr; the most awful, that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid, that of the hero in the hour of victory; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory.
Página 235 - Heidegger had no sooner made a genteel apology for the insolence of his musicians, but the false Heidegger advanced, and in a plaintive tone cried out, " Indeed, Sire, it was not my fault, but that devil's in my likeness.
Página 243 - My guilt or innocence have little to do with the question here. I rose with the rising fortunes of my country — I am willing to die with her expiring liberties. To the voice of the people I will bow, but never shall I submit to the calumnies of an individual hired to betray them and slander me. The indisposition of my body has left me, perhaps, no means but that of lying down with fallen Ireland, and recording upon her tomb my dying testimony against the flagitious corruption that has murdered...
Página 299 - Many a mile had he wandered, many a pound had he yielded, for those treasures of antiquities which had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in his eightieth year that Stowe at length received a public acknowledgment of his services, which will appear to us of a very extraordinary nature. He was so reduced in his circumstances, that he petitioned James I. for a...