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... MONTAGU , Esq . 16 vols . 8vo . 1825-1834 . We return our hearty thanks to Mr. Montagu for this truly valuable work . From the opinions which he expresses as a biographer we often dissent . But about his merit as a col- lector of the ...
... MONTAGU , Esq . 16 vols . 8vo . 1825-1834 . We return our hearty thanks to Mr. Montagu for this truly valuable work . From the opinions which he expresses as a biographer we often dissent . But about his merit as a col- lector of the ...
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... Montagu's faith is sincere and implicit . He practises no trickery . He conceals nothing . He puts the facts before us in the full confidence that they will produce on our minds the effect which they have produced on his own . It is not ...
... Montagu's faith is sincere and implicit . He practises no trickery . He conceals nothing . He puts the facts before us in the full confidence that they will produce on our minds the effect which they have produced on his own . It is not ...
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... Montagu's opinion , more probable than that his hero should ever have done any thing very wrong . This mode of ... Montagu to depart so far from his master's pre- cepts , except zeal for his master's honour . We shall follow a different ...
... Montagu's opinion , more probable than that his hero should ever have done any thing very wrong . This mode of ... Montagu to depart so far from his master's pre- cepts , except zeal for his master's honour . We shall follow a different ...
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... Montagu is more charitable . He supposes that Burleigh was influenced merely by affection for his nephew , and was " little disposed to encourage him to rely on others rather than on himself , and to venture on the quicksands of ...
... Montagu is more charitable . He supposes that Burleigh was influenced merely by affection for his nephew , and was " little disposed to encourage him to rely on others rather than on himself , and to venture on the quicksands of ...
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... Montagu not merely excusable , but deserving of high admiration . The in- tegrity and benevolence of this gentleman are so well known that our readers will probably be at a loss to conceive by what steps he can have arrived at so ...
... Montagu not merely excusable , but deserving of high admiration . The in- tegrity and benevolence of this gentleman are so well known that our readers will probably be at a loss to conceive by what steps he can have arrived at so ...
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Page 419 - had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still flourished in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand ou a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 593 - a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,
Page 592 - of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares, and over the ladies of the princely house of Oude. 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
Page 147 - and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the Bar. Indeed we imagine that the House of Commons was then almost
Page 202 - fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human
Page 72 - Revolution in England, in 1688. Comprising a View of the Reign of James the Second, from his Accession to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange, by the late Right Honourable Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH ; and completed to the Settlement of the Crown, by the Editor. To
Page 381 - on this occasion to use the services of an interpreter ; for it is remarkable that, long as he resided in India, intimately acquainted as he was with Indian politics and with the Indian character, and adored as he was by his Indian soldiery, he never learned to express himself with facility in VOL. VI.
Page 381 - was instantly performed. Clive led the new Nabob to the seat of honour, placed him on it, presented to him, after the immemorial fashion of the East, an offering of gold, and then, turning to the natives who filled the hall, congratulated them on the good fortune which had freed them from a tyrant. He was
Page 529 - The whole country was in a blaze. More than a hundred thousand people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government had, for shameful lucre, sold their substance, and their blood,
Page 624 - of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom