Bombay Quarterly Review, Volumen1,Tema 1Smith, Taylor & Company, 1855 |
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... LORD METCALFE . The Life and Correspondence of Charles , Lord Metcalfe , late Governor General of India , Governor of Jamaica , and Go- vernor of Canada ; from unpublished Letters and Journals preserved by himself , his family and his ...
... LORD METCALFE . The Life and Correspondence of Charles , Lord Metcalfe , late Governor General of India , Governor of Jamaica , and Go- vernor of Canada ; from unpublished Letters and Journals preserved by himself , his family and his ...
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... Lord Halifax . They attempt to shew us the living men and women of no long time since , surrounded by the furniture and dressed from the wardrobes " of the period . " As far as relates to the furniture and wardrobes , they are perfect ...
... Lord Halifax . They attempt to shew us the living men and women of no long time since , surrounded by the furniture and dressed from the wardrobes " of the period . " As far as relates to the furniture and wardrobes , they are perfect ...
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... Lord Hategood rolling by in his carriage . And yet there is scarce a novel that does not introduce these characters in black coats and Wellington boots . Equally removed from our expe- rience are the tribe of eccentric persons who ...
... Lord Hategood rolling by in his carriage . And yet there is scarce a novel that does not introduce these characters in black coats and Wellington boots . Equally removed from our expe- rience are the tribe of eccentric persons who ...
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... Lord Steyne , laughing . She used to tell the great man her ennuis and perplexities in her artless way - they amused him . 66 6 " Rawdon would make a very good Ecuyer - master of the ceremonies — what do you call him , the man in the ...
... Lord Steyne , laughing . She used to tell the great man her ennuis and perplexities in her artless way - they amused him . 66 6 " Rawdon would make a very good Ecuyer - master of the ceremonies — what do you call him , the man in the ...
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... Lord Steyne's voice of applause was loudest of all . Becky , the nightingale , took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian . Lord Steyne was frantic with delight . His ...
... Lord Steyne's voice of applause was loudest of all . Becky , the nightingale , took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian . Lord Steyne was frantic with delight . His ...
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Página 360 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 134 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 401 - It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant.
Página 401 - He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class; he knows when to speak and when to be silent; he is able to converse, he is able to listen; he can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson seasonably...
Página 401 - ... every class ; he knows when to speak and when to be silent ; he is able to converse, he is able to listen ; he can ask a question pertinently and gain a lesson seasonably when he has nothing to impart himself ; he is ever ready, yet never in the way ; he is a pleasant companion and a comrade you can depend upon ; he knows when to be serious and when to trifle, and he has a sure tact which enables him to trifle with gracefulness and to be serious with effect.
Página 237 - ... and perfect precision; and you find his work perfect of its kind: but if you ask him to think about any of those forms, to consider if he cannot find any better in his own head, he stops; his execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking being. But you have made a man of him for all that.
Página 384 - ... and pursuing the trains of thought which his mother wit suggests! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled Prince to find "tongues in the trees, books in the running brooks!
Página 238 - ... those ugly goblins, and formless monsters, and stern statues, anatomiless and rigid; but do not mock at them, for they are signs of the life and liberty of every workman who struck the stone; a freedom of thought, and rank in scale of being, such as no laws, no charters, no charities can secure; but which it must be the first aim of all Europe at this day to regain for her children.
Página 386 - If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, though less educated minds ; who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it.
Página 62 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.