The Ladies' Museum, Volumes 1-2James Robins and Company, 1830 - English fiction |
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... thing experi enced at this house during the last ten years . The success of Miss Kemble in the part of Juliet made her ad- mirers anxious to see her perform some of the other leading cha- racters . That of Belvidera was accordingly ...
... thing experi enced at this house during the last ten years . The success of Miss Kemble in the part of Juliet made her ad- mirers anxious to see her perform some of the other leading cha- racters . That of Belvidera was accordingly ...
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... thing that might distract him from the awful duty of preparing to meet his Maker , adding , that though disappointed of an earthly throne , the present place was to be a stepping - stone to an eternal one . ،، Were not these arms ...
... thing that might distract him from the awful duty of preparing to meet his Maker , adding , that though disappointed of an earthly throne , the present place was to be a stepping - stone to an eternal one . ،، Were not these arms ...
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... thing more poignant than wounded pride had entered my soul ; my laudable hopes had been blasted ; and in my own disappoint- ment a fond family read the annihilation of these extravagant expectations in which they had indulged . A fit of ...
... thing more poignant than wounded pride had entered my soul ; my laudable hopes had been blasted ; and in my own disappoint- ment a fond family read the annihilation of these extravagant expectations in which they had indulged . A fit of ...
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... things fondly loved and truly lamented , wi ' whom I joined in sich like parties many a lang year since , when we ... thing of their dreams- " the speechless cake had been entirely thrown away . " " That I deny , for it has tried your ...
... things fondly loved and truly lamented , wi ' whom I joined in sich like parties many a lang year since , when we ... thing of their dreams- " the speechless cake had been entirely thrown away . " " That I deny , for it has tried your ...
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... things are . " In the " Annals of the Peninsular Campaigns " we have some- thing more tangible and instructive . It is from the pen of the author of " Cyril Thornton , " and , like that work , is written with great vividness and beauty ...
... things are . " In the " Annals of the Peninsular Campaigns " we have some- thing more tangible and instructive . It is from the pen of the author of " Cyril Thornton , " and , like that work , is written with great vividness and beauty ...
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Page 62 - ... we cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the first day of June, on which the Port bill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, to implore heaven to avert from us the evils of civil war, to inspire us with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the hearts of the King and Parliament to moderation and justice.
Page 17 - He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 67 - But you are, perhaps, curious to know how this new scene has struck a savage of the mountains of America. Not advantageously, I assure you. I find the general fate of humanity here, most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.
Page 110 - Yesterday, a very pretty letter from Annabella, which I answered. What an odd situation and friendship is ours! — without one spark of love on either side, and produced by circumstances which in general lead to coldness on one side, and aversion on the other. She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled, which is strange in an heiress — a girl of twenty — a peeress that is to be, in her own right — an only child, and a savante, who has always had her own way. She is a poetess —...
Page 64 - I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point, which was to decide the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.
Page 68 - Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance. Establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles, who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Page 298 - With which the King was greatly offended, and said that then he should be under the law, which was treason to affirm, as he said; to which I said that Bracton saith, quod Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege [that the King ought not to be under man but under God and under the law—BT\.
Page 5 - God would forgive me, and cast away my sins from me, and that he would receive me into everlasting life. So I take my leave of you all, making my peace with God.
Page 298 - Judges: to which it was answered by me, that true it was, that God had endowed his Majesty with excellent science, and great endowments of nature; but His Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods, or fortunes of his subjects, are not to be decided by natural reason but by the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an act which requires long study and experience, before that a man can attain to the cognizance...
Page 298 - Then the king said, that he thought the law was founded upon reason, and that he and others had reason as well as the judges. To which it was answered by me, that true it was that God had endowed his majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature ; but his majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England. And causes which concern the life or inheritance, or goods or...