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... period , I am utterly unable to solve . In other accomplishments , however , I soon became a pro- ficient . Before I was twelve years old I was al- ready an expert angler and good shot , things not to be despised in their way , but ...
... period , I am utterly unable to solve . In other accomplishments , however , I soon became a pro- ficient . Before I was twelve years old I was al- ready an expert angler and good shot , things not to be despised in their way , but ...
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... period during which he was a member ; but men who heard him plead at the bar of the House of Lords , used to say , that great as his brother's forensic gifts were , those of the Scotch advocate were not dimmed by immediate comparison ...
... period during which he was a member ; but men who heard him plead at the bar of the House of Lords , used to say , that great as his brother's forensic gifts were , those of the Scotch advocate were not dimmed by immediate comparison ...
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... periods of my earlier ac- quaintance with Edinburgh , it could boast of other luminaries besides those I have already referred to . Cullen and Gregory have shed a light on the science of medicine , and Henry Mackenzie , the Man of ...
... periods of my earlier ac- quaintance with Edinburgh , it could boast of other luminaries besides those I have already referred to . Cullen and Gregory have shed a light on the science of medicine , and Henry Mackenzie , the Man of ...
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... period from the wit and sarcasm of Brougham , which he unmercifully applied ; Hermand , famed for his " potations pottle deep ; " and Braxfield , for the indecency of his sayings , his rough humour , and for harshness and insulting ...
... period from the wit and sarcasm of Brougham , which he unmercifully applied ; Hermand , famed for his " potations pottle deep ; " and Braxfield , for the indecency of his sayings , his rough humour , and for harshness and insulting ...
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... for independence and the arbitrary nature of their arrangements . About this period I spent a night at the inn of a provincial town ( hotels are very modern institutions ) , with the intention of 30 SETTLING DOWN TO COUNTRY LIFE .
... for independence and the arbitrary nature of their arrangements . About this period I spent a night at the inn of a provincial town ( hotels are very modern institutions ) , with the intention of 30 SETTLING DOWN TO COUNTRY LIFE .
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Page 189 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and...
Page 189 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 20 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Page 276 - ... even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth; giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite; commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert; affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man; and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself.
Page 312 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 195 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
Page 188 - Garter King-at-Arms. The judges, in their vestments of state, attended to give advice on points of law. Near a hundred and seventy Lords, three-fourths of the Upper House as the Upper House then was, walked in solemn order, from their usual place of assembling to the tribunal.
Page 202 - The full ethereal round, Infinite worlds disclosing to the view, Shines out intensely keen; and, all one cope Of starry glitter, glows from pole to pole. From pole to pole the rigid influence falls, Thro' the still night, incessant, heavy, strong, And seizes Nature fast.
Page 187 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 276 - Amidst this company stood Mr. Watt, the man whose ^ genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the...