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... favoured me with hints for amending it , — in the event of such an opportunity arising as has now for- tunately occurred . But I have not courage enough to avail myself of these suggestions : and feel that my most becoming as well as ...
... favoured me with hints for amending it , — in the event of such an opportunity arising as has now for- tunately occurred . But I have not courage enough to avail myself of these suggestions : and feel that my most becoming as well as ...
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... favoured opinions . All this rests , it will be observed , not upon the terms of any particular conversation , which might of course be imperfectly remembered - but upon my own certain knowledge of the principles by which I was actuated ...
... favoured opinions . All this rests , it will be observed , not upon the terms of any particular conversation , which might of course be imperfectly remembered - but upon my own certain knowledge of the principles by which I was actuated ...
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... favour of the general theory , we conceive that it must be very greatly confirmed by the slightest con- sideration of the Second class of cases , or those in which the external object is not the natural and necessary , but only the ...
... favour of the general theory , we conceive that it must be very greatly confirmed by the slightest con- sideration of the Second class of cases , or those in which the external object is not the natural and necessary , but only the ...
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... . This splendid illusion , which seems to have succeeded that of Optimism in the favour of philosophical enthu- siasts , and rests , like it , upon the notion that the whole 86 PERFECTIBILITY · GROUNDS OF THAT DOCTRINE . -- scheme G 3.
... . This splendid illusion , which seems to have succeeded that of Optimism in the favour of philosophical enthu- siasts , and rests , like it , upon the notion that the whole 86 PERFECTIBILITY · GROUNDS OF THAT DOCTRINE . -- scheme G 3.
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... favoured quarter of the world . It may be very natural for Madame de Staël , or for us , looking only to what has happened in our own world , and in our own times , to indulge in those dazzling views of the unbounded and universal ...
... favoured quarter of the world . It may be very natural for Madame de Staël , or for us , looking only to what has happened in our own world , and in our own times , to indulge in those dazzling views of the unbounded and universal ...
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Page 400 - is fought ; His work of glory done. " It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. " His sword was in its sheath; His fingers held the pen, "When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four hundred men.
Page 493 - 13th. I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered ; which was done there ; he looking as cheerful ! as any man could do in that condition. — 18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtell should die, I went to Newgate,
Page 285 - to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom ; the roots expand, the jar is shivered ! A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away. All
Page 179 - Rotterdam. He stopped F. Gwynne, Esq., going in with the red bag to the Queen, and told him aloud he had something to say to him from my Lord Treasurer. He talked with the son of Dr. Davenant to be sent abroad, and took out his pocket-book, and wrote down
Page 179 - and had a bow from every body but me. When I came to the antichamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. lie was soliciting the Earl of Arran
Page 150 - vase — the British empire ; for I knew that, being once broken, the separate parts could not retain even their share of the strength and value that existed in the whole; and that a perfect re-union of those parts could scarce ever be hoped for. Your Lordship may possibly remember the tears of joy that wetted my
Page 305 - Haifa dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making. '• I was not
Page 179 - for,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till / have a thousand guineas for him." Lord Treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room, beckoning Dr. Swift to follow him: both went off just before
Page 422 - we think they must immediately feel the propriety. " I have heard before of a room, with a floor laid upon springs, and such like things with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace,
Page 402 - of it at this moment. Talk not of an inn ; mention it not for your life. We have never had so many visitors, but we could easily accommodate them all, though we have received Unwin, and his wife, and his sister, and his son, all at once. My dear, I will not let