Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Tom 2

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J. Ballantyne and Company, 1817 - 530
 

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Strona 159 - C'est par la que Moliere, illustrant ses ecrits, Peut-etre de son art cut remporte le prix, Si, moins ami du peuple, en ses doctes peintures, II n'eut point fait souvent grimacer ses figures, Quitte, pour le bouffon, 1'agreable et le fin, Et sans honte a Terence allie Tabarin. Dans ce sac ridicule, ou Scapin s'enveloppe, Je ne reconnois plus 1'auteur du Misanthrope.
Strona 237 - I found none, but for felony very many. And when her majesty hastily asked me, Wherein ? I told her, the author had committed very apparent theft; for he had taken most of the sentences of Cornelius Tacitus, and translated them into English, and put them into his text.
Strona 421 - Wjlkes, a few years before. In a time of profound peace, the restless spirits of men, deprived of other objects of public curiosity, seized with avidity on those questions which were then agitated with so much violence in England, touching the rights of the people, and of the government, and the nature of power. The end of the political drama was in favour of what was called, and in some respect was, the liberty of the people.
Strona 66 - I saw thee seek the sounding shore, Delighted with the dashing roar; Or when the North his fleecy store Drove thro' the sky, I saw grim Nature's visage hoar Struck thy young eye.
Strona 238 - Turkey it obliges the sultan to permit the extortion of the bashas and governors of provinces, from whom he afterwards squeezes presents or takes forfeitures : In England, it engaged the queen to erect monopolies, and grant patents for exclusive trade : An invention so pernicious, that had she gone on during a tract of years at her own rate, England, the seat of riches, and arts, and commerce, would have contained at present as little industry as Morocco, or the coast of Barbary.
Strona 379 - ... properly directed. The manners, and the whole deportment of superiors to inferiors, are marked with that just regard and circumspection, which. announce the presence of laws equal for all. By such signs I know this to be the best government that ever existed.
Strona 27 - I propose in the following papers, " to hold, as it were the MIRROR up to Nature, " to shew Virtue her own features, Vice her own *' image, and the very age and body of the Time " his form and pressure," my readers will judge for themselves, independent of names and authority, whether the picture be a just one.
Strona 410 - England three times more in men and money than the substance of the whole country, when reduced, is worth : if it be just, that men of English birth and estates, living in Ireland, should be represented in the legislative power ; and that the Irish should not be judged by those who, they pretend, do usurp their estates ; it then seems just and convenient that both kingdoms should be united, and governed by one legislative power. Nor is it hard to shew how this may be made practicable, nor to satisfy,...
Strona 420 - has generally the credit of having first lighted the torch which was to illuminate and soon set in a blaze the finest part of Europe ; yet I think the flint was struck and the first spark elicited by the patriot John Wilkes, a few years before. In a time of profound peace, the restless spirits of men, deprived of other objects of public curiosity, seized with avidity on those questions which were then agitated with so much violence in England...
Strona 348 - ... One of them, whose companions were lately executed for forgery, had been reprieved the day before, having turned evidence, and they were all playing with great briskness and glee. . . . The transportation ladies, crowded in a small court, were much more disorderly than the men. They threatened and wrangled among themselves, singing, vociferating, and, as much as the narrow space allowed, moving about in all sorts of dresses, — one of them in men's clothes. They are not in irons like the men....

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