The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 160A. Constable, 1884 |
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Pagina 6
... mind and wit . " In truth , Sire , " he replied , " I did not think that a story of the kind could promote the glory of your Majesty or my own ! " " At the crisis of 1814 Napoleon utterly distrusted Talley- rand . We quote from one of ...
... mind and wit . " In truth , Sire , " he replied , " I did not think that a story of the kind could promote the glory of your Majesty or my own ! " " At the crisis of 1814 Napoleon utterly distrusted Talley- rand . We quote from one of ...
Pagina 11
... mind me . ' Alexander , in fact , whether in the field or the closet , was weak , unstable , and without a steady purpose . As Stadion had remarked : - ' The Emperor of Russia , upon the slightest reverse , gives orders to treat upon ...
... mind me . ' Alexander , in fact , whether in the field or the closet , was weak , unstable , and without a steady purpose . As Stadion had remarked : - ' The Emperor of Russia , upon the slightest reverse , gives orders to treat upon ...
Pagina 14
... minds to the essential weakness of Napoleon's power , and to the actual state of opinion in France ; and his views had had real weight in their counsels . From the following passage we see that the purpose of the Coalition was still not ...
... minds to the essential weakness of Napoleon's power , and to the actual state of opinion in France ; and his views had had real weight in their counsels . From the following passage we see that the purpose of the Coalition was still not ...
Pagina 19
... mind . Not only , too , was the monarchy to revive : the king was to have his own ' again . ' Royal and feudal France was to rise in majesty out of the cerements of a temporary grave , and the foolish reforms of Louis XVI . and his age ...
... mind . Not only , too , was the monarchy to revive : the king was to have his own ' again . ' Royal and feudal France was to rise in majesty out of the cerements of a temporary grave , and the foolish reforms of Louis XVI . and his age ...
Pagina 22
... mind . Marriage was spoken of ; the divorce of Josephine was not even discussed , it was taken for granted . But when they came to the choice of a wife , M. de Talleyrand at once mentioned the name of the Grand - Duchess Cathe- rine ...
... mind . Marriage was spoken of ; the divorce of Josephine was not even discussed , it was taken for granted . But when they came to the choice of a wife , M. de Talleyrand at once mentioned the name of the Grand - Duchess Cathe- rine ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 298 - He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be : But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality.
Pagina 34 - Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, LLD and FRS To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects.
Pagina 304 - What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew, And beckoning woos me, from the fatal tree To pluck a garland for herself, or me?
Pagina 394 - These wretched colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.
Pagina 333 - Early at business, and at hazard late; Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate; Drunk at a borough, civil at a ball; Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall.
Pagina 207 - Competition is put forth as the law of the universe. That is a lie. The time is come for us to declare that it is a lie by word and deed. I see no way but associating for work instead of for strikes.
Pagina 331 - tis the fall degrades her to a whore; Let greatness own her, and she's mean no more: Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess, Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless; In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers the gospel is, and hers the laws; Mounts the tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead.
Pagina 249 - The penalty never travels on with the vessel further than to the end of the return voyage ; 2 and if she is taken in any part of that voyage, she is taken in delicto.
Pagina 290 - I went through all the best critics*; almost all the English, French, and Latin poets, of any name : the minor poets, Homer, and some of the greater Greek poets, in the original; and Tasso and Ariosto in translations...
Pagina 508 - China had recovered from her internal confusion, there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by protracted resistance to the peoples of the West.