The Men of the Time: Or, Sketches of Living Notables ...Redfield, 1852 - 564 σελίδες Based on the London work of the same name with corrections or amendments. |
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Σελίδα 116 - In this wilderness of heath and rock, our estate stands forth a green oasis, a tract of ploughed, partly enclosed and planted ground, where corn ripens and trees afford a shade, although surrounded by seamews and rough-woolled sheep.
Σελίδα 61 - In this voyage, while going up the China seas, he saw for the first time the islands of the Asiatic Archipelago— islands of vast importance and unparalleled beauty —lying neglected and almost unknown. He inquired and read, and became convinced that Borneo and the Eastern Isles afforded an open field for enterprise and research. To carry to the Malay races, so long the terror of the European...
Σελίδα 64 - ... resign. In the new Whig cabinet which was to succeed, it was naturally expected that Brougham would find a place; the country was, therefore, somewhat mystified by several eager and uncalled-for declarations on his part that, under no circumstances would he take office, and particularly by his notice in the House, that he would bring on his reform motion whoever might be in power. It was asserted by his enemies that he was standing out for terms. His name, however, appeared duly in the ministerial...
Σελίδα 231 - Campaigns at Washington and New Orleans," " Chelsea College and Chelsea Pensioners," " Chronicles of Waltham," " Country Curate," " History of England," " Germany Visited," " The Hussar," " Military History of Great Britain...
Σελίδα 32 - Jewish theology ; and he commenced his education at Hechingen and Carlsruhe, and completed his course at the Gymnasium at Stuttgard, in 1832. From this period until 1835 he studied at Tubingen, Munich, and Heidelberg. He soon abandoned the Jewish theology, and devoted himself to philosophy, history, and literature. His first work, " Das Judenthum und die neueste Literatur...
Σελίδα 53 - Toulon. It was your brave regiment that opened the gates of Grenoble to him, on his return from the Isle of Elba. Soldiers I • new destinies are reserved to you. Here...
Σελίδα 112 - Senate he took a prominent part in the deliberations of that body, and rapidly rose to eminence and distinction. Few public measures were discussed between the years 1821 and 1851 that he did not participate in largely, and the influence he wielded was always felt and confessed by the country. He was one...
Σελίδα 138 - Histoire de la reforme, de la ligue et du regne de Henri IV." (4 vols. 1834); "Richelieu, Mazarin et la Fronde
Σελίδα 65 - Review, then just started by Jeffrey and Smith, and continued for many years some of the most pungent criticisms in that renowned work. In 1803, he published his treatise on th« colonial policy of the European powers, a brilliant performance, to which the progress of events has left but one utility, that of a waymark in the development of Brougham's opinions. In 1821, he took a very prominent part in the movement originated by Dr. Birkbeck for naturalizing the mechanics' insututes in England, speaking...
Σελίδα 61 - Raffles' views in Java over the whole archipelago. Fortune and life I give freely ; and if I fail in the attempt, I shall not have lived wholly in vain.