Acme Library of Standard BiographyAmerican book exchange, 1880 - 816 páginas |
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... equal to his wishes , his greediness for lucre was unrestrained either by justice or by shame . He had the effrontery to ask for a thousand louis more , in order to enable him to bring his niece , Madame Denis , the ugliest of coquettes ...
... equal to his wishes , his greediness for lucre was unrestrained either by justice or by shame . He had the effrontery to ask for a thousand louis more , in order to enable him to bring his niece , Madame Denis , the ugliest of coquettes ...
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... equal powers , would have been felt as serious . He had owed much to the opinion which all Europe entertained of his army . Since his acces- sion , his soldiers had in many successive battles been victorious over the Austrians . But the ...
... equal powers , would have been felt as serious . He had owed much to the opinion which all Europe entertained of his army . Since his acces- sion , his soldiers had in many successive battles been victorious over the Austrians . But the ...
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... equal portion of the life of Hannibal , of Cæsar , or of Napoleon , will bear a comparison with that short period , the most brilliant in the history of Prussia and of Frederick . Yet at this very time the scanty leisure of the ...
... equal portion of the life of Hannibal , of Cæsar , or of Napoleon , will bear a comparison with that short period , the most brilliant in the history of Prussia and of Frederick . Yet at this very time the scanty leisure of the ...
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... equal sever- ity : You know that you behaved shamefully in Prussia . It is well for you that you had to deal with a man so indulgent to the infirm- ities of genius as I am . You richly deserved to see the inside of a dungeon . Your ...
... equal sever- ity : You know that you behaved shamefully in Prussia . It is well for you that you had to deal with a man so indulgent to the infirm- ities of genius as I am . You richly deserved to see the inside of a dungeon . Your ...
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... equal number of Prussian troops as- sembled upon the frontiers , produced the election of Stanislaus Ponia- towski to the throne . Henceforth there was no longer an imperial diet held at which foreigners did not endeavor to bring into ...
... equal number of Prussian troops as- sembled upon the frontiers , produced the election of Stanislaus Ponia- towski to the throne . Henceforth there was no longer an imperial diet held at which foreigners did not endeavor to bring into ...
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Página 4 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 25 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Página 39 - I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption.
Página 38 - His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits.
Página 25 - We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that, which, on minds of a different cast, makes no extraordinary impression. I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Página 2 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bag-pipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there, till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.
Página 19 - Barbarian : his youth had never been instructed in the arts of reading and writing ; the common ignorance exempted him from shame or reproach, but he was reduced to a narrow circle of existence, and deprived of those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. Yet the book of nature and of man was open to his view ; and some fancy has been indulged in the political and philosophical observations which are ascribed to the Arabian traveller.
Página 15 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.
Página 38 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of The Justice of Peace.
Página 56 - Confute me," he concluded," by proofs of Scripture, or else by plain just arguments: I cannot recant otherwise. For it is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here stand I; I can do no other: God assist me!"—It is, as we say, the greatest moment in the Modern History of Men.