The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Volume 19Henry G. Allen Company, 1890 |
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Page 262 - A vast vacuity : all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand' fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud, Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft...
Page 107 - Ferdinand' Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Page 141 - Parliamentary government is government by speaking. In such a government, the power of speaking is the most highly prized of all the qualities which a politician can possess; and that power may exist, in the highest degree, without judgment, without fortitude, without skill in reading the characters of men or the signs of the times...
Page 141 - There is, however, abundant evidence that nature had bestowed on Pitt the talents of a great orator ; and those talents had been developed in a very peculiar manner, first by his education, and secondly by the high official position to which he rose early, and in -which he passed the greater part of his public life.
Page 141 - ... qualities which would fit him to meet a pressing emergency with promptitude and firmness. It was thus with Charles Townshend. It was thus with Windham. It was a privilege to listen to those accomplished and ingenious orators. But in a perilous crisis they would have been found far inferior in all the qualities of rulers to such a man as Oliver Cromwell, who talked nonsense, or as William the Silent, who did not talk at all.
Page 136 - Fox used afterwards to relate that, as the discussion proceeded, Pitt repeatedly turned to him, and said, "But surely, Mr. Fox, that might be met thus;" or, "Yes; but he lays himself open to this retort." What the particular criticisms were Fox had forgotten; but he said that he was much struck at the time by the precocity of a lad who, through the whole sitting, seemed to be thinking only how all the speeches on both sides could be answered.
Page 219 - every pleading shall contain, and contain only, a statement in a summary form of the material facts on which the party pleading relies for his claim or defence, as the case may be, but not the evidence by which they are to be proved, and shall, when necessary, be divided into paragraphs, numbered consecutively.
Page 134 - August, 1TG6, when the world was agitated by the news that Mr. Pitt had become Earl of Chatham, little William exclaimed: " I am glad that I am not the eldest son. I want to speak in the House of Commons like papa.
Page 140 - The ignominious commission was performed ; and instantly a troop of Lords of the Bedchamber, of Bishops who wished to be translated, and of Scotch peers who wished to be reelected, made haste to change sides. On a later day, the Lords rejected the bill. Fox and North were immediately directed to send their seals to the palace by their Under Secretaries ; and Pitt was appointed First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. The general opinion was, that there would be immediate dissolution.
Page 253 - Aristotle requires for a poem. On the whole, however, the theory that versification is not an indispensable requisite of a poem seems to have become nearly obsolete in our time. Perhaps, indeed, many critics would now go so far in the contrary direction as to say with Hegel (Aesthetik, iii. p. 289) that " metre is the first and only condition absolutely demanded by poetry, yea even more necessary than a figurative picturesque diction.