Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished NorthernsWhitaker, Treacher, 1833 - 732 páginas |
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... character are no necessary part of public history . Anecdotes of Kings and Ministers , Courtiers and Mistresses , do not explain the state of a nation ; they are only so far historical as they indicate the average of morals ; and in ...
... character are no necessary part of public history . Anecdotes of Kings and Ministers , Courtiers and Mistresses , do not explain the state of a nation ; they are only so far historical as they indicate the average of morals ; and in ...
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... character is formed or modi- fied , as circumstances amid which he is placed , as the sphere in which he moves , or the material he works with . The man , with his works , his words , his affections , his fortunes , is the end and aim ...
... character is formed or modi- fied , as circumstances amid which he is placed , as the sphere in which he moves , or the material he works with . The man , with his works , his words , his affections , his fortunes , is the end and aim ...
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... character of an individual may be drawn from his autograph . The goodness or badness of the writing contri- butes nothing to its physiognomy , any more than the beauty or homeliness of a countenance influences its expression ...
... character of an individual may be drawn from his autograph . The goodness or badness of the writing contri- butes nothing to its physiognomy , any more than the beauty or homeliness of a countenance influences its expression ...
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... character to his fellow representatives which , considering their stern frugality , and bold defence of their own privileges , they do not appear , as a body , to have deserved : - " In this session the Lords sent down to us a proviso ...
... character to his fellow representatives which , considering their stern frugality , and bold defence of their own privileges , they do not appear , as a body , to have deserved : - " In this session the Lords sent down to us a proviso ...
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... character . Besides , a hanged villain is of no use but to the dissectors : a living one , properly managed , may be of a great deal to a bad government . One other epistle , addressed to William Ramsden , Esq . , * occurs in this ...
... character . Besides , a hanged villain is of no use but to the dissectors : a living one , properly managed , may be of a great deal to a bad government . One other epistle , addressed to William Ramsden , Esq . , * occurs in this ...
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Página 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Página 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Página 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Página 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Página 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Página 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Página 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Página 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Página 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.