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... thought that it contributed to injure the Liberal cause , which none could hold dearer than Hazlitt . There was something in this , of course ; and it is curious to observe how , in the same way , the writer speaks in the hand- somest ...
... thought that it contributed to injure the Liberal cause , which none could hold dearer than Hazlitt . There was something in this , of course ; and it is curious to observe how , in the same way , the writer speaks in the hand- somest ...
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... thought from Indus to the Pole ” and has never mixed himself up with personal intrigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand- bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of sound mind , was of opinion that Sir Samuel ...
... thought from Indus to the Pole ” and has never mixed himself up with personal intrigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand- bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of sound mind , was of opinion that Sir Samuel ...
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... thought and with the prospect of futurity , in eager conversation with some Opposition Member , some ex- patriated Patriot , or Transatlantic Adventurer , urging the extinction of Close Boroughs , or planning a code of laws for some ...
... thought and with the prospect of futurity , in eager conversation with some Opposition Member , some ex- patriated Patriot , or Transatlantic Adventurer , urging the extinction of Close Boroughs , or planning a code of laws for some ...
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... thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and inward association . He regards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer . He meditates the coming age . He hears and sees only what suits ...
... thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and inward association . He regards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer . He meditates the coming age . He hears and sees only what suits ...
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... thought , or even a new fact or illustration . His writings are , therefore , chiefly valu- able as books of reference , as bringing down the account 1 This is scarcely so , as the greater part of the reforms carried out by Brougham and ...
... thought , or even a new fact or illustration . His writings are , therefore , chiefly valu- able as books of reference , as bringing down the account 1 This is scarcely so , as the greater part of the reforms carried out by Brougham and ...
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Page 307 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 226 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 114 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 247 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 226 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 46 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.