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Page 85
... party , which has nearly extin- guished all national and public principle . " The enormous sums expended , and the infamous practices at the two last elections for Westminster - open bribery , violence , with the scandalous chicane of a ...
... party , which has nearly extin- guished all national and public principle . " The enormous sums expended , and the infamous practices at the two last elections for Westminster - open bribery , violence , with the scandalous chicane of a ...
Page 122
... party of the Creek nation were on their return home from Pensacola , whither they had come to receive their annual presents ; and young Bowles , delighted with the novelty of situation now opened to him , joined the party , having ...
... party of the Creek nation were on their return home from Pensacola , whither they had come to receive their annual presents ; and young Bowles , delighted with the novelty of situation now opened to him , joined the party , having ...
Page 156
... them , all ears open to hear them , each party gaped and looked alternately for has received no little additional celebrity , by afford- ing 156 LORD TOWNSHEND .. accordingly placed under the tuition of Mr. Lowe, ...
... them , all ears open to hear them , each party gaped and looked alternately for has received no little additional celebrity , by afford- ing 156 LORD TOWNSHEND .. accordingly placed under the tuition of Mr. Lowe, ...
Page 308
... party in England , and as speedily dissolved by the alternate preponderance of another . Hopes , however , were entertained by his friends , that a more permanent and conspicuous situation might be obtained for him at home ; and it was ...
... party in England , and as speedily dissolved by the alternate preponderance of another . Hopes , however , were entertained by his friends , that a more permanent and conspicuous situation might be obtained for him at home ; and it was ...
Page 309
... party ; and as he always feels warmly , doubtless expressed himself on the subject of the regency , with a fervour that his enemies were tempted to stigmatize with the appellation of in- temperance . Here again the minority failed in ...
... party ; and as he always feels warmly , doubtless expressed himself on the subject of the regency , with a fervour that his enemies were tempted to stigmatize with the appellation of in- temperance . Here again the minority failed in ...
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Page 471 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 487 - I therefore told him the name of the Great Being who made him and all the world ; concerning whose adorable nature I gave him such information as I thought he could in some measure comprehend. The lesson affected him greatly, and he never forgot either it, or the circumstance that introduced it.
Page 523 - ... of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him, more than any other person ; but it is some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that as his life was honourable, so was his death glorious. His memory will be recorded in the annals of his country, — will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity.
Page 470 - THE design was to trace the progress of a Poetical Genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a Minstrel...
Page 526 - ... which had ever marked his character, till long after the action was over, when he fainted through weakness and loss of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him more than any other person; but it is some .consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that as his life was honorable, so was his death glorious.
Page 102 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void ; and therefore in 8 E 330 ab Thomas Tregor's case on the statutes of W.
Page 471 - Edwin's birth ; The parent's transport, and the parent's care ; The gossip's prayer for wealth, and wit, and worth ; And one long summer-day of indolence and mirth; VOL.
Page 157 - ... men. All eyes were fixed on them, all ears open to hear them ; each party gaped, and looked alternately for their vote, almost to the end of their speeches. While the House hung in this uncertainty, now the hear-hims...
Page 156 - His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it.
Page 250 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.