Selections from the Writings of the Late J. Sydney Taylor: With a Brief Sketch of His LifeC. Gilpin, 1843 - 496 Seiten |
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... excitement . Their action is on the theatre of history . Their voice carries the sublime language of truth into palaces ; and their triumphs are celebrated by the accla- mations of a people . Not before such an audience , nor on such an ...
... excitement . Their action is on the theatre of history . Their voice carries the sublime language of truth into palaces ; and their triumphs are celebrated by the accla- mations of a people . Not before such an audience , nor on such an ...
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... excitement , we adhered to the Constitution of England in all essential points , requiring at the hands of our rulers only such modifications and reforms as seemed necessary to repair what time had enfeebled , or to restore what abuse ...
... excitement , we adhered to the Constitution of England in all essential points , requiring at the hands of our rulers only such modifications and reforms as seemed necessary to repair what time had enfeebled , or to restore what abuse ...
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... excitement . The savage finds it in the pursuits that are necessary for his sustenance ; the circumstances in which he is placed , make him enthusiastic in search of a livelihood ; his existence is poetic . 56 SPAIN . Influence of the ...
... excitement . The savage finds it in the pursuits that are necessary for his sustenance ; the circumstances in which he is placed , make him enthusiastic in search of a livelihood ; his existence is poetic . 56 SPAIN . Influence of the ...
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... excitement , which is so much the darling object of human pursuit . But that state of society which condemns a great number of human beings to the unwholesome drudgery of manufac- tures , heaps the means of sumptuous indolence on the ...
... excitement , which is so much the darling object of human pursuit . But that state of society which condemns a great number of human beings to the unwholesome drudgery of manufac- tures , heaps the means of sumptuous indolence on the ...
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... excitement ; but they blaze out when opinion angrily disturbs the political atmo- sphere , and detonate in the storm . It was eloquently said of CHATHAM , that he could " rule the wilderness of free minds with unbounded authority ...
... excitement ; but they blaze out when opinion angrily disturbs the political atmo- sphere , and detonate in the storm . It was eloquently said of CHATHAM , that he could " rule the wilderness of free minds with unbounded authority ...
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Seite 417 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Seite xxxii - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Seite xliv - Muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust. But fairer wreaths are due — though never paid — To those who, posted at the shrine of Truth, Have fallen in her defence.
Seite 276 - When a Prince to the fate of the Peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming, In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a Chief of the People should fall.
Seite xxxii - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Seite 456 - WHEREAS the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom.
Seite 323 - ... whole he is taught, practice must also be the whole he will ever know ; if he be uninstructed in the elements and first principles upon which the rule of practice is founded, the least variation from established precedents will totally distract and bewilder him : ita lex...
Seite 457 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Seite xxxii - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Seite 437 - The good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger and...