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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
acquainted Admiral afterwards Aleppo appeared appointed attention became bishop BORN A. D. British Catholic celebrated character church circumstances command considerable death degree died distinguished Dr Erskine Dr Priestley duke duty earl Edinburgh eminent England English exertions father favour feelings formed fortune French friends genius George Morland Grattan Henry Raeburn honour house of commons house of lords Humphry Davy India Ireland king labours learned letter literary lived London Lord Lord Castlereagh Lord Rawdon lordship manner ment merit mind minister nature never object observed obtained occasion opinion painted parliament period person philosophical political possessed preached present principles profession published received rendered residence respect Rowland Hill Royal Samuel Romilly says sentiments sermon ships society soon spirit success talents taste thought tion took truth volume Westminster school whole young
Populaire passages
Pagina 188 - There is a lad here which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes ; but what are they among so many ? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down.
Pagina 374 - The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal...
Pagina 190 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.
Pagina 34 - I have lived to it ; I could almost say, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. — I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever ; and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it. — I have lived to see Thirty Millions of People, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible...
Pagina 374 - It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Pagina 187 - What reward ? St. Nicholas Within or St. Nicholas Without ! The curse of Swift is upon him to have been born an Irishman ; to have possessed a genius, and to have used his talents for the good of his country.
Pagina 102 - It is ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince Re-gent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty...
Pagina 445 - I was indebted to chance alone for stumbling upon his hidingplace. I sat up for the greatest part of several nights successively, and, before he suspected that his treatise was discovered, had completely mastered it. I could now enter upon my own ; and that carried me pretty far into the science.
Pagina 63 - In speaking then of commodities, of their exchangeable value, and of the laws which regulate their relative prices, we mean always such commodities only as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of human industry, and on the production of which competition operates without restraint.
Pagina 160 - ... most important concerns of society, where he can boldly publish his judgment on the acts of the proudest and most powerful tyrants. The press of England is still free. It is guarded by the free constitution of our forefathers. It is guarded by the hearts and arms of Englishmen, and I trust I may venture to say, that if it be to fall, it will fall only under the ruins of the British empire.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The English nation; or, A history of England in the lives of Englishmen, Volume 5 The English nation; or, A history of England in the lives of Englishmen, Englishmen |
| Auteur | Englishmen |
| Redacteur | George Godfrey Cunningham |
| Bijdragers | England, English nation |
| gepubliceerd | 1863 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 19 juni 2006 |
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