Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits, with memoirs by A.T. Malkin].

الغلاف الأمامي
 

المحتوى

عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

مقاطع مشهورة

الصفحة 412 - There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance.
الصفحة 299 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
الصفحة 119 - The most triumphant death is that of a martyr; the most awful, that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid, that of the hero in the hour of victory...
الصفحة 165 - To speak of him justly as an orator, would require a long essay. Every where natural, he carried into public something-of that simple and negligent exterior which belonged to him in private. When he began to speak, a common observer might have thought him awkward; and even a consummate judge could only have been struck with the exquisite justness of his ideas, and the transparent simplicity of his manners. But no sooner had he spoken for some time, than he was changed into another being. He forgot...
الصفحة 316 - < ' said the jealous ruler over the desert, encroached upon by the restless foot of English adventure — ' who is it that causes this river to rise in the high mountains and to empty itself into the ocean ? Who is it that causes to blow the loud winds of winter, and that calms them again in the summer ? Who is it that rears up the shade of...
الصفحة 97 - Accordingly he is to me, except in very few instances, the most disagreeable maker of epistles that ever I met with. I was willing, therefore, to wait till the impression your commendation had made upon the foolish part of me was worn off, that I might scribble away as usual, and write my uppermost thoughts, and those only.
الصفحة 317 - ... said the warrior, throwing down his tomahawk upon the ground, and raising the war-sound of his nation. These are the feelings of subjugated man all round the globe; and, depend upon it, nothing but fear will control where it is vain to look for affection.
الصفحة 317 - Oriental empire. Until this be done, neither religion nor philosophy can be pressed very far into the aid of reformation and punishment. If England, from a lust of ambition and dominion, will insist on maintaining despotic rule over distant and hostile nations, beyond all comparison more numerous and extended than herself, and gives...
الصفحة 12 - To this spot,' says his amiable and intelligent biographer, Lord Teignmouth, ' he returned every evening after sunset, and in the morning rose so early, as to reach his apartments in town, by walking, at the first appearance of dawn. The intervening period of each morning, until the opening of court, was regularly allotted and applied to distinct studies.

معلومات المراجع