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... less than four years in India , he was driven to resign his office . In the formal announcement he assigns the state of his health as a reason for this step , and that the general pacification of India had now been accomplished ; ap ...
... less than four years in India , he was driven to resign his office . In the formal announcement he assigns the state of his health as a reason for this step , and that the general pacification of India had now been accomplished ; ap ...
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... less resolute com- mander the issue of the day might have been different . The same thing may , however , be said regarding most of our great Indian battles ; we have always underrated the fighting power of the enemy , as notably in the ...
... less resolute com- mander the issue of the day might have been different . The same thing may , however , be said regarding most of our great Indian battles ; we have always underrated the fighting power of the enemy , as notably in the ...
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... less requited or recognised . His return hap- pened at a time unfortunate for England , but especially unfortunate for him . Pitt was dying , and the last letter he wrote was one of affectionate greeting to his old friend , who saw him ...
... less requited or recognised . His return hap- pened at a time unfortunate for England , but especially unfortunate for him . Pitt was dying , and the last letter he wrote was one of affectionate greeting to his old friend , who saw him ...
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... less from the love of their grandeur and sublimity than from the love of danger for its own sake and the torva voluptas ' it in- spires were it not for worshippers such as these , the love and admiration of nature might be said to be ...
... less from the love of their grandeur and sublimity than from the love of danger for its own sake and the torva voluptas ' it in- spires were it not for worshippers such as these , the love and admiration of nature might be said to be ...
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... less than any other is it to be expected in the immaturity of the student . Armstrong's blank verse , not otherwise than good in its ordinary fabric , affords by its occasional excellence a strong presumption that , had he lived , he ...
... less than any other is it to be expected in the immaturity of the student . Armstrong's blank verse , not otherwise than good in its ordinary fabric , affords by its occasional excellence a strong presumption that , had he lived , he ...
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Seite 59 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Seite 469 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within his Majesty's said realms, dominions and countries.
Seite 556 - CYPRUS. Cyprus: its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during Ten Years
Seite 33 - I have not been guilty of robbery or murder, and he has certainly changed his mind ; but the world, which is always good-natured towards those whose affairs do not exactly prosper, will not, or rather does not, fail to suspect that both, or worse, have been the occasion of my being banished, like General Kray, to my estate in Hungary.
Seite 291 - Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for Antiquity, it offers no redress for the Present, and makes no preparation for the Future.
Seite 291 - House" has abdicated its initiatory functions, and now serves only as a court of review of the legislation of the House of Commons. Whenever public opinion, which this party never attempts to form, to educate, or to lead, falls into some violent perplexity, passion, or caprice, this party yields without a struggle to the impulse, and, when the storm has passed, attempts to obstruct and obviate the logical and, ultimately, the inevitable results of the very measures they have themselves originated,...
Seite 371 - If any individual of the people of the Arabs contracting shall attack any that pass by land or sea of any nation whatsoever, in the way of plunder and piracy and not of acknowledged war, he shall be accounted an enemy of all mankind and shall be held to have forfeited both life and goods.
Seite 518 - Aid, friendship, nor alliance. With the poor I make my treaty, and the heart of man Sets the broad seal of its allegiance there, And ratifies the compact. Vassals, serfs, Ye that are bent with unrequited toil, Ye that have...
Seite 103 - Well, my boys, we have a clear sky, and are making fine headway over a smooth sea before a light breeze, and we shall soon lose sight of land; but what means this sudden lowering of the heavens, and that dark cloud arising from beneath the western horizon...
Seite 241 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.