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... Hobart Pasha . London : 1886 , • VIII . The Greville Memoirs ( Third Part ) . A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria , from 1852 to 1860. By the late C. F. Greville , Clerk of the Council . volumes . London : 1887 , . Page 107 118 ...
... Hobart Pasha . London : 1886 , • VIII . The Greville Memoirs ( Third Part ) . A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria , from 1852 to 1860. By the late C. F. Greville , Clerk of the Council . volumes . London : 1887 , . Page 107 118 ...
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... HOBART PASHA . London : 1886 . A CONTROVERSY has gone on for nearly a century and a half as to the authenticity of the Memoirs of Captain Carleton , ' a narrative now generally attributed to Daniel Defoe , and published amongst his ...
... HOBART PASHA . London : 1886 . A CONTROVERSY has gone on for nearly a century and a half as to the authenticity of the Memoirs of Captain Carleton , ' a narrative now generally attributed to Daniel Defoe , and published amongst his ...
Side 151
... Hobart's book is entirely fiction . Almost always there is a slender thread of truth discoverable after sufficiently diligent search . But times , places , and actors are all so jumbled together as to make the unravelling of the real ...
... Hobart's book is entirely fiction . Almost always there is a slender thread of truth discoverable after sufficiently diligent search . But times , places , and actors are all so jumbled together as to make the unravelling of the real ...
Side 152
... Hobart , in making the navy his profession , looked to it also as his livelihood ; and if we would view his career aright , we must bear this fact in mind . Slenderness of means is not a stepping - stone to success in the naval service ...
... Hobart , in making the navy his profession , looked to it also as his livelihood ; and if we would view his career aright , we must bear this fact in mind . Slenderness of means is not a stepping - stone to success in the naval service ...
Side 153
... Hobart's name could not have gone down to posterity , for he never held a post important enough to carry a name with it . But the name will long be remembered , nevertheless , as a com- mander of the Turkish fleet ; as the honest ...
... Hobart's name could not have gone down to posterity , for he never held a post important enough to carry a name with it . But the name will long be remembered , nevertheless , as a com- mander of the Turkish fleet ; as the honest ...
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Side 118 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Side 97 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable.
Side 530 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which •would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse...
Side 524 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Side 101 - ... how absolutely universal is the extent and at the same time how completely subordinate the significance, of the mission which mechanism has to fulfil in the structure of the world.
Side 248 - It was an age of valetudinarians, in many instances of imaginary ones ; but below its various crazes concerning health and disease, largely multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable, because partly practicable, belief that all the maladies of the soul might be reached through the subtle gateways of the body.
Side 363 - I have only zeal and good intentions to bring to this work ; I can have no merit in it, that must all belong to Mr Sadler. It seems no one else will undertake it, so I will ; and, without cant or hypocrisy, which I hate, I assure you I dare not refuse the request you have so earnestly pressed. I believe it is my duty to God and to the poor, and I trust He will support me. Talk of trouble! what do we come to parliament for?
Side 522 - God's respect to the creature's good, and his respect to himself, is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at, is happiness in union with himself.
Side 139 - Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a barbarous age, He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld.
Side 92 - He was 40 yeares old before he looked on Geometry ; which happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's Library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri i. He read the Proposition. By G — , sayd he (he would now and then sweare an emphaticall Oath by way of emphasis) this is impossible...