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... seemed to me important , and to shed light on much that was obscure in the national character and manners of our allies , after a fashion as little wearisome as possible . Such is the plan of the present volume ; and to those who may be ...
... seemed to me important , and to shed light on much that was obscure in the national character and manners of our allies , after a fashion as little wearisome as possible . Such is the plan of the present volume ; and to those who may be ...
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... seemed good to them . They have been able to create a system of terrorism which has distracted every cabinet with jealousies and disunion , and which has made the wisest and most necessary appointments impossible . It has rendered the ...
... seemed good to them . They have been able to create a system of terrorism which has distracted every cabinet with jealousies and disunion , and which has made the wisest and most necessary appointments impossible . It has rendered the ...
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... seemed to delight in his misfortune ; hens chuckled , geese hissed , ducks quacked , and chanticleer , with shrill cock - a - doodles , rent the air . ' Whence , ' cried the fox , limping forward , with infi- nite gravity , whence this ...
... seemed to delight in his misfortune ; hens chuckled , geese hissed , ducks quacked , and chanticleer , with shrill cock - a - doodles , rent the air . ' Whence , ' cried the fox , limping forward , with infi- nite gravity , whence this ...
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... seemed indifferent , and was defenceless , there is little doubt but that Russia would have withdrawn at once till a more convenient season . Thus far she had merely engaged in a diplomatic intrigue . But so wise a man as the Czar could ...
... seemed indifferent , and was defenceless , there is little doubt but that Russia would have withdrawn at once till a more convenient season . Thus far she had merely engaged in a diplomatic intrigue . But so wise a man as the Czar could ...
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... seemed inevitable for all , and for some a necessity . Russia was the first to move forward . Her long - cherished schemes against Turkey were at last ripe . If the war in Montenegro was really at an end , still she could talk indig ...
... seemed inevitable for all , and for some a necessity . Russia was the first to move forward . Her long - cherished schemes against Turkey were at last ripe . If the war in Montenegro was really at an end , still she could talk indig ...
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Strana 22 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Strana 22 - Wordsworth, Lord Macaulay ; with a General Index. 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.
Strana 7 - ... equal mastership of art. Here — lively and sparkling fancies; there — vigorous passion or practical wisdom— these works abound in illustrations that teach benevolence to the rich, and courage to the poor ; they glow with the love of freedom; they speak a sympathy with all high aspirations, and all manly struggle: and| where, in their more tragic portraitures, they depict the dread images of guilt and woe, they so clear our judgment by profound analysis, while they move our hearts by terror...
Strana 2 - Prescott's works, in point of style, rank with the ablest English historians, and paragraphs may be found in which the grace and elegance of Addison are combined with Robertson's cadence and Gibbon's brilliancy."— Athenosum.
Strana 5 - 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...
Strana v - ... and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Strana 4 - Including their Church and State, the Re-organization of the Inquisition, the Rise, Progress, and Consolidation of the Jesuits, and the means taken to effect the Counter-Reformation in Germany, to revive Romanism in France, and to suppress Protestant Principles in the South of Europe. Translated from the last edition of the German by WALTER K. KELLY, of Trinity College, Dublin. " This translation of Ranke we consider to be very superior to any other In the English language.
Strana 21 - Railroads, steamboats, and other rapid conveyances, which have added so largely to urban populations, have, at the same time, afforded the means to a numerous body, whose industry is carried forward in town, of seeking for health and amusement in rural purtuits.
Strana 10 - 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.
Strana 24 - Great Battles of the British Army." In One Volume, price 4s. 6d., cloth gilt, GREAT BATTLES OF THE BRITISH ARMY. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. Illustrated by W. Harvey. " At the present moment, when every one, from the highest to the lowest in the land, is intensely interested in all that relates to the army now engaged in the East, a work relating the struggles in which their fathers were engaged cannot but be eagerly read. This new edition is rendered still more attractive by an...