Memoirs of His Own Time: With Reminiscences of the Men and Events of the Revolution |
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Page 119 - beautifully and penitentially alludes in the third Canto of Childe Harold : "Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine; Yet one I would select from that proud throng, Partly because they blend me with his line, And partly that I did
Page 116 - and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra; but am I not prophesying, contrary to my consummate prudence, and casting horoscopes of empire
Page 336 - of aristocrats by the guillotine. And what the people, but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise: They praise and they admire they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such
Page 408 - tot of each individual in public acts, is small indeed; the operation of opinion being in the inverse ratio to the number of those who abuse power. Their own approbation of their own acts, has to them the appearance of a public judgment
Page 308 - descend into the sepulchre, I would infinitely rather they should descend thither by the hand of the public executioner, than desert at this crisis the sacred cause of my country.' The patriarch sat down, and forthwith the Declaration was signed by every member present.
Page 377 - when by man's audacious labour won, Flam'd forth this rival to its sire, the sun, Then careful Heav'n supplied two sorts of men, To squander These, and Those to hide again. Like Doctors thus, when much dispute has past. We find our tenets just the .same at last. Both fairly owning. Riches, in effect. No grace of Heav'n or token of
Page 67 - Shadows behind of FOOTE and WoodwARU came; WILKINSON this, O'BRIEN was that name. Strange to relate, but wonderfully true, That even shadows have their shadows too! With not a single comic power endued The first a mere mere mimic's mimic stood. The last, by nature formed to please, who shows, In Johnson's Stephen, which way Genius grows;
Page xxiv - sacred. Here he lies apart From the great city where he first drew breath, Was reared and taught; and humbly earned his bread To the strict labours of the merchants' desk, By duty chained. Not seldom did these tasks Tease, and the thought of time
Page 265 - three days after the action, at a house near the fort, A short time before his death, he said to Monsieur Duplessis, a French officer, who constantly attended him in his illness. ' It is finishing a noble career early; I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my
Page 347 - of opinion between him and the illustrious men thus cited. He says— "The system, though it may not be perfect in every part, is, upon the whole, a good one; is the best that the present views and circumstances will permit, and is