Collected Papers (original and Reprinted) in Prose and Verse, 1842-1862John Murray, 1862 - 293 páginas |
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... becomes reversed . Having achieved our great change , from enslavement to constitutional government , in 1688 , English pro- ductive industry " draws ahead , " whilst the exhausting effect of Louis XIV.'s prodigality , with his reckless ...
... becomes reversed . Having achieved our great change , from enslavement to constitutional government , in 1688 , English pro- ductive industry " draws ahead , " whilst the exhausting effect of Louis XIV.'s prodigality , with his reckless ...
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... become the slaves of that passion for acquiring wealth by which most Englishmen are subjugated . is For example , here is a man , himself lately a pro- fessor of agronomic science , who , although his studies lead him to feel the ...
... become the slaves of that passion for acquiring wealth by which most Englishmen are subjugated . is For example , here is a man , himself lately a pro- fessor of agronomic science , who , although his studies lead him to feel the ...
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... becoming alive to the fact that , task the powers of cultivation and of the soil as we may , we are likely to be wholly unable to keep up with the demands made upon them by our rapidly increasing population ; a population , too , whose ...
... becoming alive to the fact that , task the powers of cultivation and of the soil as we may , we are likely to be wholly unable to keep up with the demands made upon them by our rapidly increasing population ; a population , too , whose ...
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... become aware how difficult a matter it was to maintain honestly , in those poverty - stricken , barren tracts , the multitudes which , under a more ancient form of society , had proved a source of power to the " chiefs of clans ...
... become aware how difficult a matter it was to maintain honestly , in those poverty - stricken , barren tracts , the multitudes which , under a more ancient form of society , had proved a source of power to the " chiefs of clans ...
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... is to be hoped that these few representatives of a race which will ever live in the picturesque traditions of distant periods , may never become really extinct . The chapter on Ireland we must forbear to touch upon OF ENGLAND . 37.
... is to be hoped that these few representatives of a race which will ever live in the picturesque traditions of distant periods , may never become really extinct . The chapter on Ireland we must forbear to touch upon OF ENGLAND . 37.
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Página 121 - ... by odious and unworthy names. On the contrary, we highly revere the principles on which you act, though we lament some of their effects. Armed as you are, we embrace you as our friends, and as our brethren, by the best and dearest ties of relation.
Página 106 - Lord B., Scott, and I dined at the Pellegrino ; before we went Lord B. read me what he has done of the third canto of ' Don Juan.' In the evening all went to the Opera together, and from thence at twelve o'clock to a sort of public-house, to drink hot punch ; forming a strange contrast to a dirty cobbler, whom we saw in a nice room delicately eating ice. Lord B. took me home in his gondola at two o'clock ; a beautiful moonlight, and the reflection...
Página 110 - This day ten years we were married, and, though Time has made his usual changes in us both, • we are still more like lovers than any married couples of the same standing I am acquainted with. Asked to dine at Rancliffe's, but dined at home alone with Bessy. This being Sunday, our dance, in celebration of the day, deferred till to-morrow. Received a letter yesterday from my dear father, which, notwithstanding the increased tremor...
Página 122 - Quoted an excellent mot of somebody to Fontenelle, on the latter saying that he flattered himself he had a good heart — " Yes, my dear Fontenelle, you have as good a heart as can be made out of brains." In talking with Hallam afterwards, I put it to him, why it was that this short way of expressing truths did not do with the world, often as it had been tried, even Rochefoucauld being kept alive chiefly by his ill-nature. There was in this one saying to Fontenelle all that I myself had expended...
Página 121 - Long as Sir Walter has attended me, he has never explained to me what ails me. I have a great mind to open his letter and see what he has stated of my case to the Bath physician.
Página 96 - Welleslcy spoke of the difficulty there was in the way, from the feelings the King most naturally entertained towards me, and from himself being the personal friend, of the King, but that, on further consideration, he saw he could do it without any reference to the other side of the Channel, and out...
Página 107 - From thence to the church of the Annunziata : heard mass sung, which was very fine. Whether it be my popish blood or my poetical feelings, nothing gives me more delight than the
Página 89 - I last night went to a little supper after the opera, where the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert were : I was introduced to her. » * • I dine with Lord Moira to-morrow, and go in the evening with Lady Charlotte to an assembly at the Countess of Cork's. I assure you I am serious in the idea of being at least for a fortnight incog.
Página 100 - Living in London is what I do not now like at all," he says to his mother (May, 1817).