 If this state of his, country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 42geredigeerd door - 1841Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pagina’s
...all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it f en can proceed without any connexion at all, is to...utterly incomprehensible. Of what sort of materials m ! Excuse me, Sir, if turning from such thoughts, I resume this comparative view once more. You have... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pagina’s
...improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years,...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day !" a few words, as by some who even profess to write history, they are sometimes misrepresented or... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 334 pagina’s
...hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life !' If the state of his country had been foretold to him, would...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day." In this glowing anticipation the orator was more fortunate than the prophet. But Johnson's keen burlesque... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pagina’s
...him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasnij to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day." In this glowing anticipation the orator was more fortunate than the prophet. But Johnson's keen burlesque... | |
 | 1841 - 618 pagina’s
...gazing with admiration on the then commercial grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national...that a great deal of useless trouble might be saved. Mow well it justifies the remark of Fox : ' I cannot bear this thing in anybody but Burke, and he cannot... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pagina’s
...improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years,...the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!"— Purl. Hist. vol. xviii. p. 487.] doctrine of resistance, the distance of America may secure its inhabitants... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pagina’s
...succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years,you shall see as much added to her by America in the course...the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!"— Parl. Hist. vol. xviii. p. 487.] doctrine of resistance, the distance of America may secure its inhabitants... | |
 | 1843 - 526 pagina’s
...attracts the envy of the world.' . . . If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would if not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and...vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day ! " And he did not : a few months after those eloquent sentences were uttered, he died peacefully,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by * Hall's Works, 2d edition, vol. iv. p. 89. "% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( ! * * You cannot station garrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by * Hull1» Work«, SA edition, vol. Iv. p. 89. s dark and unlovely ; it is like the glimmering light...broken clouds, and the mist is on the hills : the blast I * * You cannot station garrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one... | |
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