Lives of men of letters and science who flourished in the time of George iii, Volume 1; Volume 122

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Page 27 - Quand on a tout perdu, quand on n'a plus d'espoir, La vie est un opprobre, et la mort un devoir.
Page 330 - Helmont, who flourished at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...
Page 246 - I wish it were still in my power to be a hypocrite in this particular. The common duties of society usually require it; and the ecclesiastical profession only adds a little more to an innocent dissimulation, or rather simulation, without which it is impossible to pass through the world.
Page 291 - Guttierez, a page of the queen's wardrobe. Guttierer perceived it, and calling to Salcedo, comptroller of the fleet, all three saw it in motion, as if it were carried from place to place. A little after midnight, the joyful sound of " Land ! land ! " was heard from the Pinta, which kept always ahead of the other ships.
Page 207 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, freethinker, and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the earl of Strafford...
Page 291 - Land!" was heard from the Pinta, which kept always ahead of the other ships. But having been so often deceived by fallacious appearances, every man was now become slow of belief, and waited in all the anguish of uncertainty and impatience for the return of day. As soon as morning dawned, all doubts and fears were dispelled.
Page 196 - I passed them agreeably, and in good company; and my appointments, with my frugality, had made me reach a fortune which I called independent, though most of my friends were inclined to smile when I said so: in short, I was now master of near a thousand pounds.
Page 230 - I was struck with a disorder in my bowels, which at first gave me no alarm, but has since, as I apprehend it, become mortal and incurable. I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange, have, notwithstanding the great decline of my person, never suffered a moment's abatement of my spirits; insomuch that, were I to name...
Page 48 - C'est ainsi que la terre avec plaisir rassemble Ces chênes, ces sapins, qui s'élèvent ensemble : Un suc toujours égal est préparé pour eux; Leur pied touche aux enfers, leur cime est dans les cieux*: Leur tronc...
Page 21 - ... diction leaves on the mind. Some of the passages are marked by their supposed allusion to the priesthood of his own times ; and one especially is generally given as his first declaration of war against the sacred order : — 4 " Nos prStres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense — Notre credulite fait toute leur science.

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