Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Lord Somers to HunterC. Knight, 1838 |
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... talents and industry of Somers in assisting him both in Westminster Hall and in Parliament . It was probably with this intention that Winnington advised him to go to the university , and to prosecute his studies with a view to being ...
... talents and industry of Somers in assisting him both in Westminster Hall and in Parliament . It was probably with this intention that Winnington advised him to go to the university , and to prosecute his studies with a view to being ...
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... talents which after- wards raised him to such extraordinary eminence . His college exercises , some of which are still extant , are said to have been in no respect remarkable ; and he quitted the university without acquiring any aca ...
... talents which after- wards raised him to such extraordinary eminence . His college exercises , some of which are still extant , are said to have been in no respect remarkable ; and he quitted the university without acquiring any aca ...
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... talent of Addison . His character of Sir Roger de Cover- ley , though inferior , is only inferior to Shakspeare's Falstaff . " But however prejudiced or mistaken Johnson might be in this particular instance , when he deals in ...
... talent of Addison . His character of Sir Roger de Cover- ley , though inferior , is only inferior to Shakspeare's Falstaff . " But however prejudiced or mistaken Johnson might be in this particular instance , when he deals in ...
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... talent which he had been thus eager to cultivate and strengthen by enlarged knowledge , than he could , while so engaged , have expected ever to possess . He was not slow to seize the opportunity ; and while the ashes of the city were ...
... talent which he had been thus eager to cultivate and strengthen by enlarged knowledge , than he could , while so engaged , have expected ever to possess . He was not slow to seize the opportunity ; and while the ashes of the city were ...
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... talent , who married Mr. Conduitt , his assistant and successor at the Mint . Newton's liberality was almost bound- less , yet he died rich . The only material drawback to Newton's enjoyment during this portion of his life seems to have ...
... talent , who married Mr. Conduitt , his assistant and successor at the Mint . Newton's liberality was almost bound- less , yet he died rich . The only material drawback to Newton's enjoyment during this portion of his life seems to have ...
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Page 168 - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar, that it must be considered by itself; what is true of that, is not true of anything else which he has written.
Page 274 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 107 - The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England Examined and Asserted ; the other, The Freeholder's Plea against the Stock-jobbing Elections of Parliament-men.
Page 15 - An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice...
Page 284 - I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America.
Page 494 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow.
Page 44 - It is not uncommon, for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the lights which he afforded them.
Page 242 - Millar told me that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.
Page 149 - Miscellany, in a volume which began with the pastorals of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction, such acquaintance with mankind, and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards ; and being praised by Addison in the Spectator* with sufficient liberality,...
Page 195 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo ! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums, Arrest him, empress ; or you sleep no more...