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Page 102
... hope that the book may obtain the popularity that it so richly merits . The " THREE GROATS , " is a work that would put the most crabbed philo- sopher into a good humour . It consists of a translation of G. B. Casti's " Trè Giuli , " a ...
... hope that the book may obtain the popularity that it so richly merits . The " THREE GROATS , " is a work that would put the most crabbed philo- sopher into a good humour . It consists of a translation of G. B. Casti's " Trè Giuli , " a ...
Page 103
... hope , speedily reach a third . Letters from Italy to a Younger Sister . By CATHARINE TAYLOR . Vol . II . London : Murray . 1841 . Fully redeems the promise of excellence held out by the first volume . In our perusal , we have stumbled ...
... hope , speedily reach a third . Letters from Italy to a Younger Sister . By CATHARINE TAYLOR . Vol . II . London : Murray . 1841 . Fully redeems the promise of excellence held out by the first volume . In our perusal , we have stumbled ...
Page 106
... hope that it was for ever . He organized the kingdom of Italy in the Penin- sula : happy for the Italians , and for himself , if all Italy had then formed one kingdom ! As soon as Napoleon was conquered , Austria threw off her mask ...
... hope that it was for ever . He organized the kingdom of Italy in the Penin- sula : happy for the Italians , and for himself , if all Italy had then formed one kingdom ! As soon as Napoleon was conquered , Austria threw off her mask ...
Page 120
... hope of raising Italy , and rendering her glorious in the eyes of other nations ? or than those who in posts of civil administration in the interior were labouring for the welfare and amelioration of their country ? The first , by ...
... hope of raising Italy , and rendering her glorious in the eyes of other nations ? or than those who in posts of civil administration in the interior were labouring for the welfare and amelioration of their country ? The first , by ...
Page 121
... hope to establish and maintain . Cato ceased not to be a good citizen , when he declared for the dictatorship of Pompey , because it appeared to him less dangerous than that of Cæsar : so Machiavel , at one time a martyr to his repub ...
... hope to establish and maintain . Cato ceased not to be a good citizen , when he declared for the dictatorship of Pompey , because it appeared to him less dangerous than that of Cæsar : so Machiavel , at one time a martyr to his repub ...
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Page 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.