Reminiscences of Charles Butler: ... with a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern Music, Volumen2E. Bliss & E. White, 1827 - 350 páginas |
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Página 106 - kindness and liberality, are recorded of him " That he narrowed his mind, " And to party gave up what was meant for mankind
Página 190 - utrinque Indefuror vulgo, quod numina vicinorum Odit uterque locus; cum solos credat habendos Esse Deos, quos ipse colit. Why did you alloy the sweet and holy satisfaction, which I felt from the splendid victory of Mr. Glover over the Bishop of Peterborough
Página 282 - tutelte, the moderation of a just defence ; We proceed to a more important subject. In the Report of the commissioners, we find this sentence :—" No person can have had " much experience in courts of equity, without. " feeling that many suits owe their origin to, " and many others are greatly protracted by, " questions arising from the niceties and
Página 179 - prayer of quietness and silence, and a meditation extraordinary, a discourse without variety, a vision and intuition of divine excellencies, an immediate entry into an orb of light, and a resolution of all our faculties into sweetness, affections, and gazings upon the divine beauty: and is carried on to ecstasies, raptures, suspensions, elevations, abstractions, and apprehensions beatifical.'
Página 21 - du printems," consisting, as he tells us, of " twenty young unmarried ladies of genteel, ?' though not of the very first families; the eldest " perhaps about twenty, all agreeable, several
Página 45 - during their early intimacy ; and of a letter which, under the seal of friendship, Fenelon had written to Madame de Maint6non, and which, in this trying hour, she unfeelingly communicated to B.ossuet. The substance of those different pieces Bossuet connected with so much art, interwove in them a mention of so many curious facts, so
Página 105 - beneath contemplations so exalted, and so " well calculated to inspire the most awful " sentiments of the GREAT ARTIFICER : of that " WISDOM, which could contrive the stupendous " fabric : of that PROVIDENCE, which can sup" port it: and that POWER, whose hands could " launch into their orbits, bodies of a magnitude " so prodigious."—To this just and noble encomiumof
Página 47 - always apprehensive of a dispute on facts. " I knew that such a dispute between Bishops " must occasion considerable scandal. If, as " the Bishop of Meaux has a hundred times " asserted, my book be full of the most extra" vagant contradictions, and the most mon" strous errors, why has he recourse to dis" cussions, which must be attended with the
Página 105 - contemplates the invisible comet wandering in " his parabolic orb for successive centuries, " in but a corner of boundless space;—which " considers that the diameter of the earth's " orbit, of one hundred and ninety millions of " miles in length, is but an evanescent point to
Página 282 - Observations on the Actual State " of the English Law of Real Property." ! WE hope that the preceding defence of conveyancers, solicitors and attornies, will be thought by none to exceed the