Mirabeau: a life-history [by J.S. Smith].

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Smith, Elder and Company, 1848
 

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Pagina 8 - A generous and impassioned review of the works of living painters. A hearty and earnest work, full of deep thought, and developing great and striking truths in art." — British Quarterly Review. " A very extraordinary and delightful book, full of truth and goodness, of power and beauty.
Pagina 11 - The author of these various manuals of the social sciences has the art of stating clearly the abstruse points of political economy and metaphysics, and making them level to every understanding.
Pagina 7 - This is a book to be In the cherished corner of a pleasant room, and to be taken up when the spirits have need of sunshine.
Pagina 311 - Cane, according to the latest and most approved processes, describing and comparing the different systems pursued in the East and West Indies and the Straits of Malacca, and the relative expenses and advantages attendant upon each, being the result of sixteen years...
Pagina 129 - Bleibe nicht am Boden heften, Frisch gewagt und frisch hinaus! Kopf und Arm mit heitern Kräften, Überall sind sie zu Haus; Wo wir uns der Sonne freuen, Sind wir jede Sorge los; Daß wir uns in ihr zerstreuen, Darum ist die Welt so groß.
Pagina 10 - The narration has a deep and exciting interest. No mere romance, no mere fiction, however skilfully imagined or powerfully executed, can surpass it. The work to which it bears the nearest similitude is Robinson Crusoe, and it is scarcely, if at all inferior to that extraordinary history." — John Bull. " Since the time of Robinson Crusoe, literature has produced nothing like these
Pagina 11 - Society. 2nd. To avoid making any engagements, explicit or implied, whether with persons now living or yet to be born, for the due performance of which there is no reasonable prospect. 3rd. To make such use of all superior advantages, whether of knowledge, skill, or wealth, as to promote to the utmost the general happiness of mankind.
Pagina 7 - Times. III. MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS. 2 vols. post 8vo, with Portrait, 10*. cloth. " A book for a parlour-window, for a summer's eve, for a warm fireside, for a halfhour's leisure, for a whole day's luxury ; in any and every possible shape a charming companion.
Pagina 9 - Mr. Steinmetz writes a most singular and interesting account of the Jesuit seminary, and his way of life there. ... He seems to be a perfectly honest and credible informer, and his testimony may serve to enlighten many a young devotional aspirant who is meditating ' submission ' to Rome, and the chain and scourge systems.
Pagina 100 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river: Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurled Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world!

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