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Side 203
... Corsica , to settle with Paoli the cession of Corsica to England . ' " " This sentence opens one of the most interesting episodes in his life , and the whole series of his Corsican letters will be read with great interest , for they ...
... Corsica , to settle with Paoli the cession of Corsica to England . ' " " This sentence opens one of the most interesting episodes in his life , and the whole series of his Corsican letters will be read with great interest , for they ...
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... Corsica - he seems indeed to have had no instructions at all . But he had already framed in his own mind a political conception of vast importance , which would , if it had been vigorously supported and acted upon at home , have ...
... Corsica - he seems indeed to have had no instructions at all . But he had already framed in his own mind a political conception of vast importance , which would , if it had been vigorously supported and acted upon at home , have ...
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... Corsica to Great Britain at this period , and justly reckoned the gallant attack on Bastia as one of the most brilliant of his exploits . To these considerations Sir Gilbert Elliot added a definite political object , to which the ...
... Corsica to Great Britain at this period , and justly reckoned the gallant attack on Bastia as one of the most brilliant of his exploits . To these considerations Sir Gilbert Elliot added a definite political object , to which the ...
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... Corsica ; I mean of its cause and interests ; and I have real ambition to be the founder of what I consider as likely to prove its future happiness . My wish , therefore , would be to settle , as representing Great Britain , our con ...
... Corsica ; I mean of its cause and interests ; and I have real ambition to be the founder of what I consider as likely to prove its future happiness . My wish , therefore , would be to settle , as representing Great Britain , our con ...
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... Corsica . ' Pozzo became , and remained for life , one of the warmest friends of the Minto family , and subsequently began his diplo- matic career as an attaché to Lord Minto's embassy to Vienna . But Sir Gilbert's position in Corsica ...
... Corsica . ' Pozzo became , and remained for life , one of the warmest friends of the Minto family , and subsequently began his diplo- matic career as an attaché to Lord Minto's embassy to Vienna . But Sir Gilbert's position in Corsica ...
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Side 570 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Side 111 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Side 113 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
Side 112 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Side 113 - ... shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought, Devout above the meaning of your will.
Side 111 - I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.
Side 570 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend* From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Side 111 - It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten bv their first "conviction of sin.
Side 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.