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Page 24
... tyrannic motives : a monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of
his army than the sagacity of his politicians . Oh ! then , Politicians , look upon
your country as a vast inheritance committed to your charge , 24 POLITICAL
FAME .
... tyrannic motives : a monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of
his army than the sagacity of his politicians . Oh ! then , Politicians , look upon
your country as a vast inheritance committed to your charge , 24 POLITICAL
FAME .
Page 38
... retreating dimmer and dimmer down the receding panorama , when the fleeted
years seem like some distant ship momentarily bearing further and further down
the stream , then conscience is the only criterion by which a politician can judge ...
... retreating dimmer and dimmer down the receding panorama , when the fleeted
years seem like some distant ship momentarily bearing further and further down
the stream , then conscience is the only criterion by which a politician can judge ...
Page 55
If ye receive the Nation ' s bounty in the shape of instruction , ye can return it in
the shape of patriotism , — for not to the politician alone belong duty and affection
to his country , but to the clergyman , the lawyer , the physician , the tradesman ...
If ye receive the Nation ' s bounty in the shape of instruction , ye can return it in
the shape of patriotism , — for not to the politician alone belong duty and affection
to his country , but to the clergyman , the lawyer , the physician , the tradesman ...
Page 57
Does the young politician wish for high eloquence ? Alas ! his glorious speeches
cannot quell a nation ' s groans , — and memory cannot recall one circumstance
in which words can possibly triumph over deeds . Go forth and learn , Young ...
Does the young politician wish for high eloquence ? Alas ! his glorious speeches
cannot quell a nation ' s groans , — and memory cannot recall one circumstance
in which words can possibly triumph over deeds . Go forth and learn , Young ...
Page 67
High abilities and rectitude of principles , in a politician , cast a wavering feeling
upon our minds , we would fain that all feuds were over ; that by no name , save
the people ' s friend , should the politician ever be distinguished . But this can ...
High abilities and rectitude of principles , in a politician , cast a wavering feeling
upon our minds , we would fain that all feuds were over ; that by no name , save
the people ' s friend , should the politician ever be distinguished . But this can ...
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Popular passages
Page 43 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 79 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Page 79 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Page 61 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Page 80 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Page 61 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Political Fame |
| Author | Rose Ellen Temple |
| Publisher | William Pickering, 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 99 pages |
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