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... honour of being elected , by my brethren of the Bar , to the office of Dean of the Faculty of Advocates : - When it immediately occurred to me that it was not quite fitting that the official head of a great Law Corporation should ...
... honour of being elected , by my brethren of the Bar , to the office of Dean of the Faculty of Advocates : - When it immediately occurred to me that it was not quite fitting that the official head of a great Law Corporation should ...
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... honour . Their legends , in like man- ner , related to the progeny of the immortals : and their feasts — their dwellings - their farming their battles— and every incident and occupation of their daily life being under the immediate ...
... honour . Their legends , in like man- ner , related to the progeny of the immortals : and their feasts — their dwellings - their farming their battles— and every incident and occupation of their daily life being under the immediate ...
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... honour of their country . Madame de Staël has drawn a pretty picture of the parting of Brutus and Portia ; and contrasted it , as a specimen of national character , with the Grecian group of Pericles pleading for Aspasia . The general ...
... honour of their country . Madame de Staël has drawn a pretty picture of the parting of Brutus and Portia ; and contrasted it , as a specimen of national character , with the Grecian group of Pericles pleading for Aspasia . The general ...
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... honour- able , on the whole , to the memory of their former great- ness , that so few Roman poets should have sullied their pens by any traces of adulation towards the monsters who then sat in the place of power . We pass over Madame de ...
... honour- able , on the whole , to the memory of their former great- ness , that so few Roman poets should have sullied their pens by any traces of adulation towards the monsters who then sat in the place of power . We pass over Madame de ...
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... honour and veneration . We do not , however , agree the less cordially with Madame de Staël in her remarks upon the irreparable injury which affectation does to taste and to character . The following is marked with all her spirit and ...
... honour and veneration . We do not , however , agree the less cordially with Madame de Staël in her remarks upon the irreparable injury which affectation does to taste and to character . The following is marked with all her spirit and ...
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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