The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volumen74Henry Colburn, 1845 |
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... less auspicious to the prince . At the head of the armaments of Austria - that amiable hero the Archduke Charles appeared destined to restore the sinking fortunes of his house ; so fallen that , in 1809 , Napoleon had published in the ...
... less auspicious to the prince . At the head of the armaments of Austria - that amiable hero the Archduke Charles appeared destined to restore the sinking fortunes of his house ; so fallen that , in 1809 , Napoleon had published in the ...
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... less successful in others , not less vitally important to the se- curity of the Austrian government ; he has centralised and absorbed into the capital all the governing power . As regards public opinion , self- government , and ...
... less successful in others , not less vitally important to the se- curity of the Austrian government ; he has centralised and absorbed into the capital all the governing power . As regards public opinion , self- government , and ...
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... less than his spiritual ad- visers . The example of his father , Don Philip of Bourbon , a hunter and a warrior , who had been dragged to death by a mad horse through the woods of Colorno , had early warned the young duke against the ...
... less than his spiritual ad- visers . The example of his father , Don Philip of Bourbon , a hunter and a warrior , who had been dragged to death by a mad horse through the woods of Colorno , had early warned the young duke against the ...
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... less starved and ragged labourers of the soil ; further on , the stables and dairies , kept up with that cleanliness , airiness , and comfort , which constitute the chief pride of the Lombard peasant , who seems happy to show how far ...
... less starved and ragged labourers of the soil ; further on , the stables and dairies , kept up with that cleanliness , airiness , and comfort , which constitute the chief pride of the Lombard peasant , who seems happy to show how far ...
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... less important to be able to talk than to know how to be silent . Every circle possesses its professional talker , as notorious a character as the wrestler at Corinth , or the jockey at Newmarket . His fame is a passport to all company ...
... less important to be able to talk than to know how to be silent . Every circle possesses its professional talker , as notorious a character as the wrestler at Corinth , or the jockey at Newmarket . His fame is a passport to all company ...
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Página 372 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 372 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind...
Página 372 - His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has...
Página 585 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Página 204 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Página 125 - ... their retreat, carried off part of the treasure, and, what was dearer than any treasure, several of the women of the great king; who was at last obliged to repass the Euphrates with some marks of haste and confusion.
Página 635 - It has been suggested," observes the same philosophic writer, "that, as in our own times, the northern animals migrate, so the Siberian Elephant and Rhinoceros may have wandered towards the north in summer." In making such excursions during the heat of that brief season, the Mammoths would be arrested in their northern progress by a condition to which the Rein-deer and...
Página 70 - Fox, passing early one summer's morning near a farm-yard, was caught in a springe, which the farmer had planted there for that end.. The Cock, at a distance, saw what happened , and, hardly yet daring to trust himself too near so dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously, and peeped at him, not without some horror and dread of mind. Reynard no sooner perceived it, but he addressed himself to him, with all the designing artifice imaginable.
Página 145 - You are all aware that On our throne there once sat A very great king who'd an Angevin hat, With a great sprig of broom, which he wore as a badge in it, Named from this circumstance, Heury Plintagenet.