Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré ...: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine, Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence, Orations and Speeches, and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reviews, Band 1Burges & James, 1846 - 558 Seiten |
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... reference to Pope is not enough ; and we must , in order to be sure to be understood , cite eight lines , six of which are those to which we allude , and perfectly appropriate here , as descri- bing the pious care with which Legaré ...
... reference to Pope is not enough ; and we must , in order to be sure to be understood , cite eight lines , six of which are those to which we allude , and perfectly appropriate here , as descri- bing the pious care with which Legaré ...
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... reference to the matri- monial contract , it was unequalled . It is to be regretted that this argument has not been reported ; for all who heard it admitted that it was one of his greatest efforts . As an instance of the care with which ...
... reference to the matri- monial contract , it was unequalled . It is to be regretted that this argument has not been reported ; for all who heard it admitted that it was one of his greatest efforts . As an instance of the care with which ...
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... reference to Lord Valletort , whose deplorable ill - health I mentioned as especially so , consid- ering the beauty of his young wife . He is a stupid fellow , says Lord S. , and like the rest of them , as weak in body as in mind ...
... reference to Lord Valletort , whose deplorable ill - health I mentioned as especially so , consid- ering the beauty of his young wife . He is a stupid fellow , says Lord S. , and like the rest of them , as weak in body as in mind ...
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... reference to France , to Count de Latour Maubourg , but he thinks all well . Nous verrons . haps he's right . Per- 29th August . Dine at Lacken . We first assembled in the fine rotunda , from which we go out upon the steps behind . The ...
... reference to France , to Count de Latour Maubourg , but he thinks all well . Nous verrons . haps he's right . Per- 29th August . Dine at Lacken . We first assembled in the fine rotunda , from which we go out upon the steps behind . The ...
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... reference to his diplomatic residence abroad ) that he had materials for a volume . It is also proper to add that the difficulty of deciphering the manuscript may have led to several errors in the text . JOURNAL OF THE RHINE . Antwerp ...
... reference to his diplomatic residence abroad ) that he had materials for a volume . It is also proper to add that the difficulty of deciphering the manuscript may have led to several errors in the text . JOURNAL OF THE RHINE . Antwerp ...
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Seite 265 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks...
Seite 281 - ... will vanquish our foes. Let us consider the issue. Let us look to the end. Let us weigh and consider, before we advance to those measures which must bring on the most trying and terrible struggle, this country ever saw.
Seite xi - The orison repeated in his arms, For God to bless her sire and all mankind ; The book, the bosom on his knee reclined, Or how sweet fairy-lore he heard her con (The playmate ere the teacher of her mind) : All uncompanion'd else her years had gone Till now in Gertrude's eyes their ninth blue summer shone.
Seite 378 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost...
Seite 430 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Seite 269 - Bequeathed — a heritage of heart and hand, And proud distinction from each other land, Whose sons must bow them at a monarch's motion, As if his senseless sceptre were a wand Full of the magic of exploded science — Still one great clime, in full and free defiance, Yet rears her crest, unconquered and sublime, Above the far Atlantic...
Seite 460 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...
Seite 175 - Council on the principles we have set forth, and to divers other subjects more particularly mentioned in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the present Session...
Seite 320 - ... and if, by the loss of her foreign commerce, these products should be confined to an inadequate market, the fate of this fertile State would be poverty and utter desolation; her citizens, in despair, would emigrate to more fortunate regions, and the whole frame and constitution of her civil polity be impaired and derang'ed, if not dissolved entirely.
Seite 269 - For tyranny of late is cunning grown, And in its own good season tramples down The sparkles of our ashes. One great clime, Whose...