Pictures from the Battle Fields. By “The Roving Englishman” [E. C. Grenville Murray]. Sixth thousandG. Routledge & Company, 1856 - 259 Seiten |
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... never yet been fairly represented . The peers have noto- riously packed the parliament . One of their number , who was certainly no statesman , was made the con- stant depository of forty of their proxies , because every action of his ...
... never yet been fairly represented . The peers have noto- riously packed the parliament . One of their number , who was certainly no statesman , was made the con- stant depository of forty of their proxies , because every action of his ...
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... never have more inducement than he now has to acquire the proper qualifications for office , if he is always unaccountably to be allowed to seize on it without ; to neglect its burthen and to reap its profit . Oh , whither shall we ...
... never have more inducement than he now has to acquire the proper qualifications for office , if he is always unaccountably to be allowed to seize on it without ; to neglect its burthen and to reap its profit . Oh , whither shall we ...
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... never appealed in vain ; while he is strengthened and supported by the knowledge , that if a manly resistance to evil has injured many , obse- quiousness and servility to power , violent and intem- perate subserviency to the ignorance ...
... never appealed in vain ; while he is strengthened and supported by the knowledge , that if a manly resistance to evil has injured many , obse- quiousness and servility to power , violent and intem- perate subserviency to the ignorance ...
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... never dreamed he was going to lead us into battle . We chatted about running a railway bridge over the Damietta branch of the Nile , but who would have thought of making a railway in the Crimea , and doing it wrongly into the bargain ...
... never dreamed he was going to lead us into battle . We chatted about running a railway bridge over the Damietta branch of the Nile , but who would have thought of making a railway in the Crimea , and doing it wrongly into the bargain ...
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... never do anything without being snubbed and overlooked ; so they reasonably dreaded the interference of the Christian powers as much on this occasion as upon others . The Montenegrins , however , hastily despatched emissaries to Vienna ...
... never do anything without being snubbed and overlooked ; so they reasonably dreaded the interference of the Christian powers as much on this occasion as upon others . The Montenegrins , however , hastily despatched emissaries to Vienna ...
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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.