Acme Library of Standard BiographyAmerican book exchange, 1880 - 816 strán (strany) |
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Strana 2
... looked down on his brother king with an air not unlike that with which the count in Molière's play regards Monsieur Jourdain , just fresh from the mummery of being made a gentleman . Austria exacted large sacrifice in return for her ...
... looked down on his brother king with an air not unlike that with which the count in Molière's play regards Monsieur Jourdain , just fresh from the mummery of being made a gentleman . Austria exacted large sacrifice in return for her ...
Strana 3
... looked forward to some future time when his Patagonian battalions were to drive hostile infantry be- fore them like sheep . But this future time was always receding , and it is probable that if his life had been prolonged thirty years ...
... looked forward to some future time when his Patagonian battalions were to drive hostile infantry be- fore them like sheep . But this future time was always receding , and it is probable that if his life had been prolonged thirty years ...
Strana 8
... looked with profound veneration on the genius of Voltaire . Nor is it just to con- demn him for this feeling . " A man who has never seen the sun , " says Calderon in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be blamed for thinking that ...
... looked with profound veneration on the genius of Voltaire . Nor is it just to con- demn him for this feeling . " A man who has never seen the sun , " says Calderon in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be blamed for thinking that ...
Strana 10
... looked forward to the accession of their patron , as to the day from which their own prosperity and greatness was to date . They had at last reached the promised land , the land which they had figured to themselves as flowing with milk ...
... looked forward to the accession of their patron , as to the day from which their own prosperity and greatness was to date . They had at last reached the promised land , the land which they had figured to themselves as flowing with milk ...
Strana 16
... looked with pride on the tapestries at Blenheim , or the statue in the " Place of Victories , " little thought by what privations , by what waste of private fortunes , by how many bitter tears , conquests must be purchased . For a time ...
... looked with pride on the tapestries at Blenheim , or the statue in the " Place of Victories , " little thought by what privations , by what waste of private fortunes , by how many bitter tears , conquests must be purchased . For a time ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.