The Quarterly Review, Volume 183William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 - English literature |
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... Sir Henry's professional excellence , and in explanation of his rapid rise and ... Lord Sidmouth , who showed him some of the letters which had passed between ... Palmerston , ' is a better judge of public feeling than a doctor , who is ...
... Sir Henry's professional excellence , and in explanation of his rapid rise and ... Lord Sidmouth , who showed him some of the letters which had passed between ... Palmerston , ' is a better judge of public feeling than a doctor , who is ...
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... Lord John's attitude . But it is difficult , also , to avoid the conclusion that the Premier fancied , by heading the cry of the hour , that he would supersede in popularity his rival Lord Palmerston , who , owing to his recent ...
... Lord John's attitude . But it is difficult , also , to avoid the conclusion that the Premier fancied , by heading the cry of the hour , that he would supersede in popularity his rival Lord Palmerston , who , owing to his recent ...
Page 532
... Lord Palmerston comprehends it himself ; but you will have no such difficulty . ' After the crisis of 1846 , Lord Aberdeen retired to his Scottish property in Aberdeenshire , and remained there culti- vating and improving his estates ...
... Lord Palmerston comprehends it himself ; but you will have no such difficulty . ' After the crisis of 1846 , Lord Aberdeen retired to his Scottish property in Aberdeenshire , and remained there culti- vating and improving his estates ...
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... Palmerston had taken no very definite attitude as a politician , though he probably would be equally well described ... Lord Palmerston - says : - In regard to the Turks themselves , may I venture to observe that the genius of their ...
... Palmerston had taken no very definite attitude as a politician , though he probably would be equally well described ... Lord Palmerston - says : - In regard to the Turks themselves , may I venture to observe that the genius of their ...
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... Lord Palmerston , as a Sligo landlord , joined heartily in the attempt to relieve the appalling distress . With ... Lord John Russell Palmerston remained at the Foreign Office from 1846 to 1851. Throughout the memorable period when the ...
... Lord Palmerston , as a Sligo landlord , joined heartily in the attempt to relieve the appalling distress . With ... Lord John Russell Palmerston remained at the Foreign Office from 1846 to 1851. Throughout the memorable period when the ...
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Page 248 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 120 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 250 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 334 - Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee ; do thou With courtesy receive him ; rise and bow ; And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave; Then lay before him all thou hast ; allow...
Page 10 - In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness ; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others.
Page 411 - In and for each Province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions: 1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union...
Page 137 - We men may say more, swear more : but, indeed, Our shows are more than will ; for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love. Duke. But died thy sister of her love, my boy ? Vio. I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too ; — and yet I know not : — Sir, shall I to this lady ? Duke.
Page 247 - Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
Page 339 - I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives...
Page 248 - And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once...