Pictures from the Battle Fields. By “The Roving Englishman” [E. C. Grenville Murray]. Sixth thousandG. Routledge & Company, 1856 - 259 Seiten |
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... hand hath not known the doings of our left . Secrecy , mystery , and consequent error have paralysed our councils , and disgraced the ancient honour of our arms on sea and land . We appear to have forgotten that nothing great was ever ...
... hand hath not known the doings of our left . Secrecy , mystery , and consequent error have paralysed our councils , and disgraced the ancient honour of our arms on sea and land . We appear to have forgotten that nothing great was ever ...
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... hand of a Burke to give it to a Bedford or a Lauderdale . The governing Families have gone farther than this . If any man has been found even among the Bedfords and Lauderdales to rest his claim for public employment or promotion on the ...
... hand of a Burke to give it to a Bedford or a Lauderdale . The governing Families have gone farther than this . If any man has been found even among the Bedfords and Lauderdales to rest his claim for public employment or promotion on the ...
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... hand far more than was wickedly denied to temperate remonstrance . Those only are the true and thoughtful Conserva- tives , the wise friends of the commonwealth , who are now pleading to the Family so passionately for moderate reforms ...
... hand far more than was wickedly denied to temperate remonstrance . Those only are the true and thoughtful Conserva- tives , the wise friends of the commonwealth , who are now pleading to the Family so passionately for moderate reforms ...
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... hand , while his favourite mode of taking exercise was using it over their loyal and submissive backs . We pooh - poohed Montenegro , and the vladika , and his subjects , and his whip altogether at first . Our wives and daughters ...
... hand , while his favourite mode of taking exercise was using it over their loyal and submissive backs . We pooh - poohed Montenegro , and the vladika , and his subjects , and his whip altogether at first . Our wives and daughters ...
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... hand quite stern and ready enough . Turkey of late years has run into the very extreme of liberalism . Thirty years ago she was fol- lowing her political refugees to Vienna and Venice , to bring them to torturing and disgraceful deaths ...
... hand quite stern and ready enough . Turkey of late years has run into the very extreme of liberalism . Thirty years ago she was fol- lowing her political refugees to Vienna and Venice , to bring them to torturing and disgraceful deaths ...
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Seite 243 - That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a
Seite 243 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a
Seite 5 - Sometimes the scene and the very title of his romance have been some renowned structure, a palace, a prison, or a fortress. It is thus with the * Tower of London,' ' Windsor Castle,'
Seite 259 - THE HISTORY OF ITALY; from the Fall of the Western Empire, to the Commencement of the Wars of the French Revolution. By GEORGE PERCEVAL, Esq.
Seite 3 - ... images of guilt and woe, they so clear our judgment by profound analysis, •while they move our hearts by terror or compassion, that we learn to detect and stifle in ourselves the evil thought which we see gradually unfolding itself into the guilty deed.
Seite 5 - But the readers of Mr. Ainsworth— who number thousands upon thousands— need hardly be informed of this; and now that a uniform edition of his works is published, we do not doubt but that this large number of readers even will be considerably increased.
Seite 18 - The articles are chiefly selected so as to afford a succession of graphic parts of English History, chronologically arranged, from the consideration that the portions of history upon which general readers delight to dwell are those which tell some story which is complete in itself, or furnish some illustration which has a separate as well as a general interest.
Seite 6 - Certainly no custom was ever more popular ; the fame of it is bruited throughout the length and breadth of the land. It is a subject that gives excellent scope to a writer of fiction ; and Mr. Ainsworth, by skilful treatment. has rendered it most entertaining The materials are put together with dramatic force.
Seite 28 - TUTOR'S ASSISTANT ; being a Com' * pendium of Arithmetic for the Use of Schools. A New and improved Edition, to which is added, an Appendix on the Decimal Coinage, by JR YOUNG, late Professor of Mathematics, Belfast College. " ' Walkingame's Tutor' is especially valuable for its copious variety of examples and extensive range of subjects ; and in its present more modernized, improved, and corrected form, it is hoped that it may continue to sustain the character it has so long possessed as a favourite...
Seite 1 - Edition, with Continuation to the Death of Wellington. With Portraits of all the Sovereigns. " In this edition, the editor has added some facts which had been overlooked by the author, and preceded the original work by a short notice of the earlier history, fathered from the old chroniclers, and continued to the present time.