Morton's Hope: Or, The Memoirs of a Provincial, Band 1Harper & brothers, 1839 - 536 Seiten |
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Morton's Hope: Or, the Memoirs of a Provincial, Band 1 John Lothrop Motley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
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Seite 64 - ... desolation, as all navigation is obstructed, upon which alone our whole support depends ; and the town is at this crisis in a situation nearly such, as if war was formally declared against it. To contend with our parent state, is, in our idea, the most shocking and dreadful extremity ; but tamely to relinquish the only security we and our posterity retain of the enjoyment of our lives and properties, without one struggle, is so humiliating and base, that we cannot support the reflection. We apprehend,...
Seite 64 - To contend with our parent state is the most shocking and dreadful extremity, but tamely to relinquish the only security we and our posterity retain for the enjoyment of our lives and properties, without one struggle, is so humiliating and base that we cannot support the reflection. It is at your option to prevent this distressed and justly incensed people from effecting too much, and from the shame and reproach of attempting too little.
Seite 126 - Zealand chiefs, his decoration of itself hardly excited attention ; but as, to heighten the charms of his physiognomy, he had recently shaved off one of his eyebrows, his face certainly might lay claim to a bizarre and 'very unique character. His figure was slender, and not yet mature, but already of a tolerable height. His dress was in the extreme of the then Gottingen fashion. He wore a chaotic coat, without collar or buttons, and as destitute of colour as of shape ; enormously wide trowsers, and...
Seite 51 - I did, without compass and without experience, on the boundless ocean of learning, what could I expect but an utter and a hopeless shipwreck? Thus I went on, becoming more learned, and therefore more ignorant, more confused in my brain, and more awkward in my habits, from day to day. I was ever at my studies, and could hardly be prevailed upon to allot a moment to exercise or recreation. I breakfasted with a pen behind my ear, and dined in company with a folio bigger than the table.
Seite 64 - Came up the Harbour, and Anchored round the TOWN; their Cannon Loaded, a Spring on their Cables, as for a regular Siege.
Seite 119 - JAQUES. And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut ? TOUCHSTONE. I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial, nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we measur'd swords, and parted. JAQUES. Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? TOUCHSTONE. O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book2 ; as you have books for good manners : I will name you the degrees.
Seite 126 - ... of character ... he went immeasurably beyond any person I have ever known. ... I have seldom seen a more unprepossessing person . . . though on better acquaintance ... I began to think him rather well looking. He had coarse scrubby hair, of a mixed colour, something between red and a whity-brown. His face was peppered all over with freckles, and his eyes were colourless in the centre, and looked as if edged with red tape. An enormous scar, the relic of a recent duel . . . extended from the tip...
Seite 53 - ... dreams of glory were not confined to authorship and literature alone; but every sphere in which the intellect of man exerts itself revolved in a blaze of light before me. And there I sat in my solitude and dreamed such wondrous dreams ! Events were thickening around me which were soon to change the world, - but they were unmarked by me. The country was changing to a mighty theatre, on whose stage those who were as great as I fancied myself to be were to enact a stupendous drama in which I had...
Seite 53 - Fancy shook her kaleidoscope each moment as chance directed, and lo! what new, fantastic, brilliant, but what unmeaning visions. My ambitious anticipations were as boundless as they were various and conflicting. There was not a path which leads to glory in which I was not destined to gather laurels. As a warrior I would conquer and overrun the world. As a statesman I would reorganize and govern it. As a historian I would consign -it all to immortality; and in my leisure moments would be a great poet...
Seite 167 - It presents the singular phenomenon of a rude, though regularly organised republic, existing in the heart of a despotism. In fact, every one of the main points of the German's character is directly the opposite of those of the German student. The German is phlegmatic, — the student fiery. The German is orderly and obedient to the authorities — the student ferocious and intractable. The German is peaceable, — the student for ever brawling and fighting. The German is eminently conservative in...