Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III.: To which is Added Remarks on Party, and an Appendix. Ist series, Volumen2Lea and Blanchard, 1839 |
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Página 103 - been learnt, if they had learnt any good ones." But the highest part of the eulogy rises into no exaggeration.—" This man, driven from his employment, discountenanced by the directors, had no other reward and no other distinction but that inward ' sunshine of the soul,' which a good conscience can always bestow on itself.
Página 26 - urbe polleat multorum obedire tempori, multorumque vel honori, vel periculo servire. His enim rebus, infimo loco natus, et honores, et pecuniam, et gratiam consecutus, etiam in patronorum sine doctrina, sine ingenio, aliquem numerum pervenerat." (Cic. Brutus.} The power of deciding causes, which he showed when raised to the bench, was favourably con* Equity,
Página 189 - but no man ever knew anything about him who did not see him at his own table, with the few whom he selected. He was a little convivial deity ; he soared in every region, and was at home in all—he touched everything, and seemed as if he had created it ; he
Página 190 - of he was turned of sixty, yet he was as playful as a child. The extremes of youth and age were met in him : he had the experience of the one, and the simplicity of the other."—(Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries, p. 3.) Let one specimen of
Página 190 - Curran had no conversational rule whatever : he spoke from impulse, and he had the art so to draw you into a participation, that, though you felt an inferiority, it was quite a contented one. Indeed nothing could exceed the urbanity of his demeanour. At the time I spoke of he was turned
Página 313 - Madame de Staël published her celebrated novel of Delphine, she was supposed to have painted herself in the person of the heroine, and M. Talleyrand in that of an elderly lady, who is one of the principal characters. " On me dit (said he, the first time he met her) que nous sommes tous les deux dans votre roman,
Página 157 - becoming every day more difficult to bear. An action which he soon after fought with the Foudroyant lineof-battle ship, was the most extraordinary display of both valour and skill witnessed in that war, so fertile in great exploits ; and it at once raised his renown to the highest pitch.
Página 311 - détruire qui le fait vivre : on détruit par-tout : aussi tout lieu lui est bon ; il ne tient pas au champ où il a placé son travail, parce que son travail, n'est que de la fatigue, et qu'aucune idée douce n'y est jointe. Ce qui sort de ses mains ne passe point par toutes les croissances si attachantes
Página 313 - en femme."—Rulhieres, the celebrated author of the work on the Polish Revolution, having said, " Je n'ai fait qu'un méchanceté de ma vie;" "Et quand finira-t-elle ?" was M. Talleyrand's reply.—" Genève est ennuyeuse, n'est-ce pas?" asked a friend ; " Surtout quand on s'y amuse," was the answer.—" Elle est insupportable
Página 320 - se quisque attolere ac levare vellet, diu nequiret, quia torpentibus rigore nervis, vix flectere artus poterant.'f The hopes of Napoleon were blighted ; the retreat of his armament was cut off; and his doom sealed far more irreversibly than if the