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Page 15 - Dr. Birch and his Young Friends," a poem published in England in the year 1848 :— " Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the awful will, And bear it with an honest heart.
Page 43 - and open my eyes;" but Dante says, " And I opened them not for him, and to be rude to him was courtesy." Thus representing himself in a song he knew he was singing for all his country and for posterity, in an act of meanness*
Page 121 - By their efforts, in spite of my opposition, it has proved victorious." And may not be added here, with propriety, the reforms of the penal code of England, so perseveringly urged by Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir James Mackintosh, and at length partially
Page 95 - wedlock; and Lord Campbell, in the work cited in the preceding note, says, " England, during the Stuart reigns, was cursed by a succession of ruffians in ermine, who, for the sake of
Page 101 - I have mentioned some cheering characteristics of our period, showing an essential progress in our race. I ought to add a third, —namely, the more gentlemanly spirit which pervades modern penal laws. I am well aware that the whole system of punition has greatly improved, because men have made penology a subject of serious reflection, and the utter fallacy of many
Page 20 - Account of the Pelew Islands, composed from the Journals of Captain Henry Wilson, wrecked on those Islands in the Ship Antelope, in 1783, by G. Keate, Esq.: 4th edition, London,
Page 18 - and polished deportment,—a character to which all meanness, explosive irritableness, and peevish fretfulness are alien; to which, consequently, a generous candor, scrupulous veracity, and essential
Page 16 - Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that
Page 12 - History of the House of Commons," calls it, The society of the first gentlemen in the world. When Nicholas, the Emperor of Russia, conversing with the English ambassador, Sir Hamilton Seymour, on the state of Turkey, was desirous of impressing the latter that he was speaking with perfect truth, he said," Now I desire to speak to you as a friend and as a gentleman."*
Page 90 - and obligation are each other's complements, and cannot be severed without undermining the ethical ground on which we stand,—that ground on which alone civilization, justice, virtue, and real progress can build enduring monuments.