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Pagina 4
... importance depended on those very improvements against which their vengeance was so ignorantly directed . The father of Sir Robert Peel possessed intellcc- tual faculties in an eminent degree acute . Without the advantages of scholastic ...
... importance depended on those very improvements against which their vengeance was so ignorantly directed . The father of Sir Robert Peel possessed intellcc- tual faculties in an eminent degree acute . Without the advantages of scholastic ...
Pagina 7
... important : sen- sible of the variableness of the winds , and of the treachery of the smooth surface on which he sails , he pushes his vessel from the shore with a trembling hand ; but although clouds and storms sometimes ob- scure the ...
... important : sen- sible of the variableness of the winds , and of the treachery of the smooth surface on which he sails , he pushes his vessel from the shore with a trembling hand ; but although clouds and storms sometimes ob- scure the ...
Pagina 14
... important measures . The basis of his political opinions during the recent eventful war , as they appear in his speeches and con- duct in parliament , may probably lie in the following proposition : that nothing could more effectually ...
... important measures . The basis of his political opinions during the recent eventful war , as they appear in his speeches and con- duct in parliament , may probably lie in the following proposition : that nothing could more effectually ...
Pagina 25
... importance this ancient staple of the coun- try ; and that , although the regulations respecting the cotton - trade had not been framed according to his wishes , and would materially affect his interests , yet as he would never bring ...
... importance this ancient staple of the coun- try ; and that , although the regulations respecting the cotton - trade had not been framed according to his wishes , and would materially affect his interests , yet as he would never bring ...
Pagina 26
... importance in the scale of society , who by industry and talents had raised him- self to high consideration , and who , in amassing a princely fortune , had contributed so much , by the extension of a new branch of commerce , to the na ...
... importance in the scale of society , who by industry and talents had raised him- self to high consideration , and who , in amassing a princely fortune , had contributed so much , by the extension of a new branch of commerce , to the na ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 276 - In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand: With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork, and bending reed.
Pagina 8 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Pagina 288 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Pagina 276 - The bright-ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Pagina 186 - Accordingly, on that day, he moved for leave to bring in a bill " for vesting the affairs of the East India company in the hands of certain commissioners, for the benefit of the proprietors and the public ;" and also a bill " for the better government of the territorial possessions and dependencies in India.
Pagina 190 - I cannot consider myself warranted to lay before the Prince of Wales an address purporting to invest his Royal Highness with powers to take upon him the government of this realm, before he shall be enabled by law to do so.
Pagina 282 - ... conversation to the ministry, who, provided the colonies would subject themselves, might after all, or might not, at their pleasure, make any alterations in the former instructions to governors, or propose in parliament any amendment of the acts complained of...
Pagina 288 - That it is the opinion of this committee, that his majesty is prevented, by his present indisposition, from coming to his parliament, and from attending to public business, and that the personal exercise of the royal authority is thereby, for the present, interrupted.
Pagina 297 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Pagina 306 - In 1801 appeared a splendid edition, from the press of Bulmer, of " the Tragedies and Poems of Frederick Earl of Carlisle, Knight of the Garter,