| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 páginas
...risking every thing, even his " darling popularity," on the success of the East India Bill, nobly says: X* 4 all true glory ; he will remember, that it was not only in the Roman customs, but it is in the nature... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1880 - 552 páginas
...eloquence is necessary : — a man, who to relieve the sufferings of the most distant nation, " put to the hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power,...darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he had never seen." How much more then for the inhabitants of his native country !— yet this is the... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 344 páginas
...risking everything, even his " darling popularity," on the success of the East India Bill, nobly says : " He is traduced and abused for his supposed motives....remember that obloquy is a necessary ingredient in all true glory ; he will remember that it was not only in the Roman customs, but it is in the nature... | |
| Edwin Llewellyn Shuman - 1888 - 128 páginas
...forward with a panegyric. He said of Fox: " He has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen. ' ' How truly — how much more truly — these words apply to Burke ! For fourteen years he endeavored... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 464 páginas
...eloquence is necessary — a man who, to relieve the sufferings of the most distant nation, " put to the hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power,...darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he had never seen." How much more, then, for the inhabitants of his native country! Yet this is the man... | |
| Thomas Paine, Thomas Clio Rickman - 1908 - 476 páginas
...eloquence is necessary: a man who, to relieve the sufferings of the most distant nation, "put to the hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power,...darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he had never seen." How much more then for the inhabitants of his native country I — yet this is the... | |
| Henry Montagu Butler - 1909 - 346 páginas
...common path of virtue. As Burke said, in his majestic style, nearly a hundred and twenty years ago, " This is the road that all heroes have trod before...remember that obloquy is a necessary ingredient in all true glory, and that calumny and abuse are essential parts of triumph." A noble and stately consolation,... | |
| Walter Sichel - 1909 - 612 páginas
...heroised the " author " of the dream. The task, he said, had fallen to one worthy of it, who had risked his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even...his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people he had never seen. He was traduced, but obloquy was precious to a prophet. "This is the road that all... | |
| John Percival Postgate - 1913 - 204 páginas
...snares are spread about his path, from personal animosity, from court intrigues, and possibly from popular delusion. But he has put to hazard his ease,...is the road that all heroes have trod before him. BURKE. 25. You ascended the throne with a declared, and I doubt not, a sincere resolution of giving... | |
| John Drinkwater - 1928 - 448 páginas
...eloquence to support so great a measure of hazardous benevolence. . . . He has put to hazard his case, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling...is the road that all heroes have trod before him. . . . [In his faults there is] nothing to extinguish the fires of great virtues ... no mixture of deceit,... | |
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