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Strana 32
... passing a judgment on his work , but there appear to be strong marks of the garrulity of declining years in some of the anecdotes , which he has introduced , we suppose , to enliven the dulness of philological enquiries , par- ticularly ...
... passing a judgment on his work , but there appear to be strong marks of the garrulity of declining years in some of the anecdotes , which he has introduced , we suppose , to enliven the dulness of philological enquiries , par- ticularly ...
Strana 55
... indulgence towards the hard and repulsive character he was painting : educated only for war , by priests and warriors , he had scarcely passed through the inferior ranks of a 1807. ] 55 Napoleon and the French People .
... indulgence towards the hard and repulsive character he was painting : educated only for war , by priests and warriors , he had scarcely passed through the inferior ranks of a 1807. ] 55 Napoleon and the French People .
Strana 56
he had scarcely passed through the inferior ranks of a military life , when in the maddest moments of the soi - disant French republic , an unexampled and boundless career was opened to him . All the energetic and powerful characters ...
he had scarcely passed through the inferior ranks of a military life , when in the maddest moments of the soi - disant French republic , an unexampled and boundless career was opened to him . All the energetic and powerful characters ...
Strana 60
... passing through several towns , which are merely named , the travellers arrive at Cordova , of which a concise , but interesting account is given by M. Helms . He states that the inhabitants of Cordova amount to 1500 Spaniards He and ...
... passing through several towns , which are merely named , the travellers arrive at Cordova , of which a concise , but interesting account is given by M. Helms . He states that the inhabitants of Cordova amount to 1500 Spaniards He and ...
Strana 64
... passed , by which the trade in African slaves to foreign settle- ments is prohibited entirely . In June 1806 , the slave - trade in general was , by a resolution of the two Houses , declared to be contrary to the principles of justice ...
... passed , by which the trade in African slaves to foreign settle- ments is prohibited entirely . In June 1806 , the slave - trade in general was , by a resolution of the two Houses , declared to be contrary to the principles of justice ...
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Strana 385 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee : 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Strana 278 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Strana 91 - The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine.
Strana 385 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Strana 279 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Strana 465 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Strana 98 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man...
Strana 308 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Strana 280 - His funds were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained therefore competent to that expensive establishment which his reputation, added to a hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon him ; and to those donations which real distress has a right to claim from opulence. He made no pretensions to that vivacity which fascinates, or to that wit which dazzles, and frequently imposes on the understanding. More...
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