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Read my book , Politicians , and believe that it is written in the spirit of sincerity .
Great authors , how I envy ye your toil , Ye have the labour , but ye have the spoil
; As the Romans to their warlike nation Triumphs granted , mine be the ovation ...
Read my book , Politicians , and believe that it is written in the spirit of sincerity .
Great authors , how I envy ye your toil , Ye have the labour , but ye have the spoil
; As the Romans to their warlike nation Triumphs granted , mine be the ovation ...
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... lesson to restore the king to his senses ; but he mistook the moderation for
cowardice , and forgot , that whereas men from the earliest history of the world
were endued with a spirit for fighting , policy is an acquired principle , which
grows with ...
... lesson to restore the king to his senses ; but he mistook the moderation for
cowardice , and forgot , that whereas men from the earliest history of the world
were endued with a spirit for fighting , policy is an acquired principle , which
grows with ...
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Spirit of Justice , balance well thy scales ; Honour , Truth , and Sincerity attend
each meeting , for responsible and sacred is the task which each member of
Parliament has taken upon himself . Should any doubt this ? Why , then , do we
offer ...
Spirit of Justice , balance well thy scales ; Honour , Truth , and Sincerity attend
each meeting , for responsible and sacred is the task which each member of
Parliament has taken upon himself . Should any doubt this ? Why , then , do we
offer ...
Page 72
... had he thought of politics above the might of arms , had he remembered that
the battle ' s roar is not the loudest voice to guide a nation , had Napoleon rather
remained the Protector than the conqueror , his noble spirit would not have been
...
... had he thought of politics above the might of arms , had he remembered that
the battle ' s roar is not the loudest voice to guide a nation , had Napoleon rather
remained the Protector than the conqueror , his noble spirit would not have been
...
Page 75
upon a noisy spirit promising much and performing little ; and far wiser for our
politicians to dread that degree of popularity which shows itself in that free
familiarity between the people and the member : from the moment such a liaison
exists ...
upon a noisy spirit promising much and performing little ; and far wiser for our
politicians to dread that degree of popularity which shows itself in that free
familiarity between the people and the member : from the moment such a liaison
exists ...
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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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