The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Том 8R. Cadell, 1834 |
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Страница 201 - ings of the order, could only be the punishment of some foul and disgraceful crime ; and the condition of the ex-nobles might justly have been described as Bolingbroke paints his own, " Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Dispark'd my parks, and fell'd my forest
Страница 55 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end,
Страница 201 - my own windows torn my household coat, Razed out my impress, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I was a
Страница 10 - the language of philosophy, when he wished to suppress the monks of Belgium, and to seize their revenues : but there was seen on him a mask only of philosophy, covering the hideous countenance of a greedy despot: and the people ran to arms. Nothing better than another kind of despotism has been seen in the revolutionary powers.''—
Страница 237 - desertion. They would thus have avoided the infamy of a regicide government^ and attained their great object of republican institutions."] from circumstances, but which could not be proved ; and which, placed as he was, the King was entitled to conceal, since his real sentiments could not be avowed consistently with his personal safety. But
Страница iii - completed in the fashion here adopted, dates and other marginal elucidations regularly introduced, and the text itself, wherever there appeared any redundancy of statement, abridged. With these instructions, except the last, the Editor has now endeavoured to comply. " Walter Scott," says Goethe, " passed his childhood among the stirring scenes of the American War, and was a youth of
Страница 311 - Buonaparte could no longer restrain his indignation. ' What madness ! ' exclaimed he ; ' how could they allow these scoundrels to enter ? They ought to have blown four or five hundred of them into the air with cannon ; the rest would then have taken to their