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Page 55 - At school, friendship is a passion. It entrances the being ; it tears the soul. All loves of after-life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no pangs of jealousy or despair so crushing and so keen ! What tenderness and what devotion ; what illimitable confidence; infinite revelations of inmost thoughts ; what ecstatic present and romantic future ; what bitter...
Page 478 - The House of Commons is the house of a few : the sovereign is the sovereign of all. The proper leader of the people is the individual who sits upon the throne.
Page 157 - Do not suppose,' he added, smiling, 'that I hold that youth is genius; all that I say is, that genius, when young, is divine. Why, the greatest captains of ancient and modern times both conquered Italy at fiveand-twenty! Youth, extreme youth, overthrew the Persian Empire. Don John of Austria won Lepanto at twenty-five, the greatest battle of modern time; had it not been for the jealousy of Philip, the next year he would have been Emperor of Mauritania. Gaston de Foix was only twenty- two when he...
Page 555 - What we want, sir, is not to fashion new dukes and furbish up old baronies, but to establish great principles which may maintain the realm and secure the happiness of the people. Let me see authority once more honoured ; a solemn reverence again the habit of our lives ; let me see property acknowledging, as in the old days of faith, that labour is his twin brother, and that the essence of all tenure is the performance of duty...
Page 37 - A LITTLE dinner, not more than the Muses, with all the guests clever, and some pretty, offers human life and human nature under very favourable circumstances.
Page 595 - Peasantry of the realm had been one of the characteristic sensibilities of Lord Henry at Eton. Yet a schoolboy, he had busied himself with their pastimes and the details of their cottage economy. As he advanced in life, the horizon of his views expanded with his intelligence and his experience ; and...
Page 553 - You go with your family, sir, like a gentleman ; you are not to consider your opinions, like a philosopher or a political adventurer.
Page 16 - ... tender sentiment; the daring exploit and the dashing scrape; the passion that pervades our life, and breathes in everything, from the aspiring study to the inspiring sport: oh! what hereafter can spur the brain and touch the heart like this; can give us a world so deeply and variously interesting; a life so full of quick and bright excitement, passed in a scene so fair?
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Page 66 - To say this is to go perhaps too far; certainly it is to go farther than Carlyle, who none the less was in sympathy with the remark; for he also worshipped events, believing as he did that but for the breath of God's mouth they never would have been events at all. We thus find him...