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Page 11
William the Conqueror felt that law was the only power capable of making
subjects the pupil , the sovereign the master ; and as the justice or tyranny of
each law in its form is not our present discussion , so we leave to other pens the
task of ...
William the Conqueror felt that law was the only power capable of making
subjects the pupil , the sovereign the master ; and as the justice or tyranny of
each law in its form is not our present discussion , so we leave to other pens the
task of ...
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... untaught by example , refusing advice , battling with the very laws he had
made , restricting the liberty he had sworn to protect , endeavouring to rule by
absolute monarchy , and to convert that * Charles the Tenth . . monarchy into
tyranny .
... untaught by example , refusing advice , battling with the very laws he had
made , restricting the liberty he had sworn to protect , endeavouring to rule by
absolute monarchy , and to convert that * Charles the Tenth . . monarchy into
tyranny .
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monarchy into tyranny . Odious idea of sovereign might , to stake a nation ' s
welfare on the chance of a victory or defeat in a civil war . Readers , my historical
researches so far are over ; and those who deny the theory , or , to pay my power
a ...
monarchy into tyranny . Odious idea of sovereign might , to stake a nation ' s
welfare on the chance of a victory or defeat in a civil war . Readers , my historical
researches so far are over ; and those who deny the theory , or , to pay my power
a ...
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Will the poor never be taught to know their true position ? never whilst the rich
himself pens the very fact of his tyranny . Oh ! ye poor , believe not in the
happiness which Mammon confers on its favorites ; think that every thousand the
rich man ...
Will the poor never be taught to know their true position ? never whilst the rich
himself pens the very fact of his tyranny . Oh ! ye poor , believe not in the
happiness which Mammon confers on its favorites ; think that every thousand the
rich man ...
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And may England , freed from all discontent , retain some shadow of that
primeval state , ere avarice and ambition arraigned the heart in pride and tyranny
. And at the last hour let conscience be like some unrifled tree which has stood
the ...
And may England , freed from all discontent , retain some shadow of that
primeval state , ere avarice and ambition arraigned the heart in pride and tyranny
. And at the last hour let conscience be like some unrifled tree which has stood
the ...
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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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