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... kind : but he was good - natured , at least to children . However , this connection was , on the whole , an agreeable one for Coningsby . He seemed sud- denly to have friends ; he never passed his holydays 12 CONINGSBY ; OR.
... kind : but he was good - natured , at least to children . However , this connection was , on the whole , an agreeable one for Coningsby . He seemed sud- denly to have friends ; he never passed his holydays 12 CONINGSBY ; OR.
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... kind Duke had welcomed his son once more to the house where they had both been born ; and the dim eyes , and saddened brows , and tones of tenderness , which rather looked than said farewell , when they went back to Eton . And these ...
... kind Duke had welcomed his son once more to the house where they had both been born ; and the dim eyes , and saddened brows , and tones of tenderness , which rather looked than said farewell , when they went back to Eton . And these ...
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... kind recollection , for Lord Monmouth was generous to those who amused him . In the meantime the hour of dinner is at hand . Coningsby , who had lost the key of his carpet - bag , which he finally cut open with a penknife that he found ...
... kind recollection , for Lord Monmouth was generous to those who amused him . In the meantime the hour of dinner is at hand . Coningsby , who had lost the key of his carpet - bag , which he finally cut open with a penknife that he found ...
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... kind- ness , which irritated her step - mother , who seemed seldom to address her but to rate and chide ; Lucretia never replied , but looked dogged . Her father , the Prince , did not compensate for this treatment . The memory of her ...
... kind- ness , which irritated her step - mother , who seemed seldom to address her but to rate and chide ; Lucretia never replied , but looked dogged . Her father , the Prince , did not compensate for this treatment . The memory of her ...
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... kind and gracious as the first one had been repulsive . Lord Mon- mouth gave Coningsby his blessing and ten pounds ; desired that he would order a dress , anything he liked , for the approaching Montem , which Lord Monmouth meant to ...
... kind and gracious as the first one had been repulsive . Lord Mon- mouth gave Coningsby his blessing and ten pounds ; desired that he would order a dress , anything he liked , for the approaching Montem , which Lord Monmouth meant to ...
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Página 376 - The ORIGIN of CIVILISATION and the PRIMITIVE CONDITION of MAN ; Mental and Social Condition of Savages.
Página 376 - LORD MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS and SPEECHES. STUDENT'S EDITION, in crown 8vo. price 6s. The Rev. SYDNEY SMITH'S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS; including his Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. Crown 8vo. 6s. The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith; a Selection of the most memorable Passages in his Writings and Conversation.
Página 115 - Foix was only twenty- two when he stood a victor on the plain of Ravenna. Every one remembers Conde and Rocroy at the same age. Gustavus Adolphus died at thirty-eight. Look at his captains: that wonderful Duke of Weimar, only thirty-six when he died.
Página 321 - We should now so act that, when the occasion arrives, we should clearly comprehend what we want, and have formed an opinion as to the best means by which that want can be supplied. " For this purpose I would accustom the public mind to the contemplation of an existing though torpid power in the constitution, capable of removing our social grievances...
Página 350 - An indefinite, yet strong sympathy with the peasantry of the realm had been one of the characteristic sensibilities of Lord Henry at Eton. Yet a schoolboy, he had busied himself with their pastimes and the details of their cottage economy. As he advanced in life the horizon of his views expanded with his intelligence and his experience; and...
Página 117 - It may be all these; yet these, as we must all daily feel, are not necessarily great men. A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation: whether he be a monk in his cloister agitating Christendom, or a monarch crossing the Granicus, and giving a new character to the Pagan World.
Página 70 - ... really nothing in common with the ancient character of our political settlement, or the manners and customs of the English people. Confidence in the loyalty of the nation, testified by munificent grants of rights and franchises, and favour to an expansive system of traffic, were distinctive qualities of the English sovereignty, until the House of Commons usurped the better portion of its prerogatives.
Página 40 - All loves of after life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness; no bliss so absorbing, no pangs of jealousy or despair so crushing and so keen! What tenderness and what devotion; what illimitable confidence; infinite revelations of inmost thoughts; what ecstatic present and romantic future; what bitter estrangements and what melting reconciliations; what scenes of wild recrimination, agitating explanations, passionate correspondence; what insane sensitiveness, and what frantic sensibility;...
Página 115 - Banier himself, after all his miracles, died at forty-five. Cortes was little more than thirty when he gazed upon the golden cupolas of Mexico. When Maurice of Saxony died at thirty-two, all Europe acknowledged the loss of the greatest captain and the profoundest statesman of the age.