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... perhaps rather too eagerly , into scorn and derision , now that he is deserted by fortune , and appears without ex- traordinary resources in the day of his calamity . - We do not think that an ambitious despot and sanguinary conqueror ...
... perhaps rather too eagerly , into scorn and derision , now that he is deserted by fortune , and appears without ex- traordinary resources in the day of his calamity . - We do not think that an ambitious despot and sanguinary conqueror ...
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... perhaps , ever stood on so proud a pinnacle of worldly grandeur , as this insatiable conqueror at the beginning of his Russian campaign . He had done more he had acquired more -- and he possessed more , as to actual power , influence ...
... perhaps , ever stood on so proud a pinnacle of worldly grandeur , as this insatiable conqueror at the beginning of his Russian campaign . He had done more he had acquired more -- and he possessed more , as to actual power , influence ...
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... perhaps need to be dis- abused upon this subject ; -but no illusion was ever so strong , or so pernicious with the multitude , as that which invested heroes of this description with a sort of supernatural grandeur State and Prospects of ...
... perhaps need to be dis- abused upon this subject ; -but no illusion was ever so strong , or so pernicious with the multitude , as that which invested heroes of this description with a sort of supernatural grandeur State and Prospects of ...
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... perhaps we should say of mankind in general , not to rely too much on those warm expressions of love and loyal- ty , with which his accession has been hailed , and which would probably have been lavished with equal profusion on his ...
... perhaps we should say of mankind in general , not to rely too much on those warm expressions of love and loyal- ty , with which his accession has been hailed , and which would probably have been lavished with equal profusion on his ...
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... perhaps , in the arrangements by which it had been so long pent up and compressed . The only true policy would have been for those , whose interest or judgment enabled them to see the hazards upon which the new - sprung enthusiasts were ...
... perhaps , in the arrangements by which it had been so long pent up and compressed . The only true policy would have been for those , whose interest or judgment enabled them to see the hazards upon which the new - sprung enthusiasts were ...
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Side 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Side 203 - Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce conceals Though smooth his voice, and calm his general mien Still seems there something he would not have seen His features...
Side 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Side 425 - Yet a few years, we think, and all that now bless, or all that now convulse humanity, will also have perished. The mightiest pageantry of life will pass, the loudest notes of triumph or of conquest will be silent in the grave; — the wicked, wherever active, " will cease from troubling," and the weary, wherever suffering,
Side 204 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
Side 211 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Side 211 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Side 257 - ASIA, being the first portion of a General Collection of Voyages and Travels; forming a complete History of the origin and progress of discovery, by Sea and Land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
Side 500 - Literary History of the Middle Ages ; comprehending an Account of the State of Learning from the Close of the Reign of Augustus to its Revival in the Fifteenth Century.
Side 268 - In a short time a new taste and new perceptions began to dawn upon me, and I was convinced that I had originally formed a false opinion of the perfection of art, and that this great painter was well entitled to the high rank which he holds in the estimation of the world.