Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters ...William Hone, 1819 - 439 pages |
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Page xiv
... enemies of mankind . If he could not secure the freedom , peace , and happiness of his country , he made her a terror to those who by sowing civil dissension and exciting foreign wars , would not let her enjoy those blessings . They who ...
... enemies of mankind . If he could not secure the freedom , peace , and happiness of his country , he made her a terror to those who by sowing civil dissension and exciting foreign wars , would not let her enjoy those blessings . They who ...
Page xvii
... enemy ; and the poor Reformers who were taken in to join the cry , because they are as fastidious in their love of liberty as their opponents are inveterate in their devotion to despot- ism , continue in vain to reproach them with their ...
... enemy ; and the poor Reformers who were taken in to join the cry , because they are as fastidious in their love of liberty as their opponents are inveterate in their devotion to despot- ism , continue in vain to reproach them with their ...
Page xviii
... enemies , and their own weakness as well ; for " At this day , When a Tartarean darkness overspreads The groaning nations ; when the impious rule , By will or by established ordinance , Their own dire agents , and constrain the good To ...
... enemies , and their own weakness as well ; for " At this day , When a Tartarean darkness overspreads The groaning nations ; when the impious rule , By will or by established ordinance , Their own dire agents , and constrain the good To ...
Page xxiv
... the hands of the common enemy , who laughs in his sleeve , and watches them and their little perverse , pettifogging passions at work for him , from the high tower of his pride and strength ! If an honest xxiv PREFACE .
... the hands of the common enemy , who laughs in his sleeve , and watches them and their little perverse , pettifogging passions at work for him , from the high tower of his pride and strength ! If an honest xxiv PREFACE .
Page xxxiv
... patch up with its deadly enemies . This is very pitiful work ; and , I believe , the public with me are tolerably sick of the character . At the same time , he hurls up his cap with a foolish face of wonder xxxiv PREFACE .
... patch up with its deadly enemies . This is very pitiful work ; and , I believe , the public with me are tolerably sick of the character . At the same time , he hurls up his cap with a foolish face of wonder xxxiv PREFACE .
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Page 267 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 370 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 312 - But pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river — A moment white, then melts for ever...
Page 128 - And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him ; and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke ; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Page 142 - What is he, whose grief Bears such an emphasis ? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers ? this is I, Hamlet the Dane.
Page xvi - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 252 - Thankless too for peace, (Peace long preserved by fleets and perilous seas) Secure from actual warfare, we have loved To swell the warwhoop, passionate for war ! Alas ! for ages ignorant of all Its ghastlier workings, (famine or blue plague, Battle, or siege, or flight through wintry...
Page 136 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war — upon church and state — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world, and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Page 136 - And for myself, I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and Philosophy had met together. Truth and Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion.
Page xxxvi - Tis avarice all, ambition is no more ! See, all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See, all our fools aspiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore ! All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law : While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry — ' Nothing is sacred now but villany.