Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern MusicE. Bliss & E. White, 1824 - 351 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة v
... French Cus- tomary and Satute Law - and on the Code Napoléon , 41 6. On the Order of Avocâts in France , and its extinc- tion at the French Revolution , 7. - On the English Law of Property , 8. - Recommendation of a course of Study of ...
... French Cus- tomary and Satute Law - and on the Code Napoléon , 41 6. On the Order of Avocâts in France , and its extinc- tion at the French Revolution , 7. - On the English Law of Property , 8. - Recommendation of a course of Study of ...
الصفحة vi
... and Scandinavian nations . XV . Succinct History of the Geographical and Political Revolutions of the German Empire - Remarks on the French Revolution , 184 CONTENTS . Historical Account of the Confessions of Faith of vi CONTENTS .
... and Scandinavian nations . XV . Succinct History of the Geographical and Political Revolutions of the German Empire - Remarks on the French Revolution , 184 CONTENTS . Historical Account of the Confessions of Faith of vi CONTENTS .
الصفحة vii
... French Revolution , 204 XXIV . Biographical Account of Bossuet , XXV . Biographical Account of Fénélon , XXVI . 206 208 226 Biographical Accounts of the Abbot de Rancé - St . Vincent of Paul - Henri - Marie de Boudon ; and Thomas à ...
... French Revolution , 204 XXIV . Biographical Account of Bossuet , XXV . Biographical Account of Fénélon , XXVI . 206 208 226 Biographical Accounts of the Abbot de Rancé - St . Vincent of Paul - Henri - Marie de Boudon ; and Thomas à ...
الصفحة viii
... French , page 248 252 ib . 255 257 261 ib . 270 - - 4. The present general Diffusion of Learning among all Ranks of Persons , 5. - General Diffusion of Literature among the Ladies of Great Britain , · 6. Suggestion of a Work on the ...
... French , page 248 252 ib . 255 257 261 ib . 270 - - 4. The present general Diffusion of Learning among all Ranks of Persons , 5. - General Diffusion of Literature among the Ladies of Great Britain , · 6. Suggestion of a Work on the ...
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... French jurisconsults noticed in his Elóges , mentions that " he was so absorbed in his lite- " rary pursuits , that his wife was frequently obliged to " drag him from his library to his bureau . " To this necessity , the loved and ...
... French jurisconsults noticed in his Elóges , mentions that " he was so absorbed in his lite- " rary pursuits , that his wife was frequently obliged to " drag him from his library to his bureau . " To this necessity , the loved and ...
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الصفحة 132 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
الصفحة 76 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
الصفحة 173 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, — enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land....
الصفحة 133 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
الصفحة 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
الصفحة 133 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord* frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
الصفحة 173 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
الصفحة 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
الصفحة 132 - ... to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren ? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment.
الصفحة 172 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.