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Page 333 - They are themselves mistaken who take him to be a madman He is cool, collected, and indomitable, and it is but just to him to say, that he was humane to his prisoners And he inspired me with great trust in his integrity as a man of truth. He is a fanatic, vain and garrulous,
Page 129 - The wild exploits of those romantic knights who sallied forth in quest of adventures, are well known, and have been treated with proper ridicule. The political and permanent effects of the spirit of chivalry have been less observed.
Page 114 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 100 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.
Page 200 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Page 340 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 214 - For shame," said he to the Parliament, "get you gone; give place to honester men, to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a Parliament : I tell you, you are no longer a Parliament. The Lord has done with you : he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Page 127 - It hath been through all ages ever seen, That, with the praise of arms and chivalry, The prize of beauty still hath joined been ; And that for reason's special privity : For either doth on other much rely ; For he, me seems, most fit the fair to serve, That can her hest defend from villany ; And she most fit his service doth deserve, That fairest is, and from her faith will never swerve.
Page 210 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 134 - Charlemagne affords a solitary restingplace between two long periods of turbulence and ignominy, deriving the advantages of contrast both from...