Works of Henry Lord Brougham ...Adam and Charles Black, 1872 |
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... particular violat- ing probability . Nor can anything be more happy or more judicious than the manner in which we are , at the very first , brought into the middle of the story , and yet soon find it unravelled and presented before our ...
... particular violat- ing probability . Nor can anything be more happy or more judicious than the manner in which we are , at the very first , brought into the middle of the story , and yet soon find it unravelled and presented before our ...
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... particular people . Cæsar had thus described , in a portion of his ' Commentaries , ' both the Germans and the Britons : Tacitus had written a work expressly on the German manners and character . But these were either works apart from ...
... particular people . Cæsar had thus described , in a portion of his ' Commentaries , ' both the Germans and the Britons : Tacitus had written a work expressly on the German manners and character . But these were either works apart from ...
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... particular historians or avouched by the general belief of mankind . Here his sagacity never fails him - here his scepticism is never hurtful . The admirable tract in which he assembled a large body of his critical doubts under the ...
... particular historians or avouched by the general belief of mankind . Here his sagacity never fails him - here his scepticism is never hurtful . The admirable tract in which he assembled a large body of his critical doubts under the ...
Stran 106
... particular opinions already given , and no general reflections could alter the impression which these must already have produced . One part only of his composition has had no place , and derived no illustration from the preceding pages ...
... particular opinions already given , and no general reflections could alter the impression which these must already have produced . One part only of his composition has had no place , and derived no illustration from the preceding pages ...
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... particular system which he desired to establish . But though it would be exceedingly wrong to pass over this great and prevailing fault without severe re- probation , it would be equally unjust , nay , ungrateful , ever to forget the ...
... particular system which he desired to establish . But though it would be exceedingly wrong to pass over this great and prevailing fault without severe re- probation , it would be equally unjust , nay , ungrateful , ever to forget the ...
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acquaintance admirable admitted afterwards Altesse Sérénissime ANDREW MILLAR appears attack believe Catiline certainly character Church Cicero Cirey composition conduct Confessions court dæmon DAVID HUME death diction doubt Edinburgh Encyclopédie father favour feelings Ferney formed Frederick II French genius Gibbon give given habits Henriade historian History of Scotland honour Hume Hume's indulge Johnson kind labour language Lausanne learned less letter lettre de cachet literary lived Livy London Lord Lord Bute Madame manner matter Maupertuis ment merit mind moral narrative nature Neufchâtel never observed opinions Paris party passages passed person philosophical pleasure poem poet political praise prejudices published religion religious remarkable respect ribaldry Robertson Rousseau Sallust says seems society soon speak style success taste temper things tion truth verse Voltaire Voltaire's volume Whig whole wholly writings written wrote Zaire
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 403 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Stran 328 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Stran 383 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Stran 368 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear. Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from...
Stran 342 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I .knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Stran 21 - Quand on a tout perdu, quand on n'a plus d'espoir, La vie est un opprobre, et la mort un devoir.
Stran 313 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Stran 405 - He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.
Stran 403 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Stran 362 - Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere et fan, to think naturally and express forcibly.