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Page 125 - a stock of Irish girls and Irish young men, ' are wanting for the peopling of Jamaica. ' The answer of Henry Cromwell is as follows : — ' Concerning the supply of young men, although we must use force in taking them up, yet it being so much for their own good, and likely to be of so great advantage to the public, it is not...
Page 239 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Page 120 - Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments, and a man can raise a thirst...
Page 233 - Cela est incontestable , lui répliqua-t-on; mais dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.
Page 252 - Ed un ch' avea 1' una e 1' altra man mozza, Levando i moncherin per 1' aura fosca, Sì che il sangue facea la faccia sozza, Gridò: Ricordera'li anche del Mosca, Che dissi, lasso! Capo ha cosa fatta, Che fu il mal seme della gente losca. Ed io v' aggiunsi: E morte di tua schiatta; Perch' egli, accumulando duol con duolo, Sen gio come persona trista e matta. Ma io rimasi a riguardar lo stuolo, E vidi cosa ch...
Page 237 - ... to be embroidered with your own opinions, and episodes, and comparisons with more recent times. That is a most entertaining kind of writing. In general, I have seldom wasted time on the origin of nations, unless for an opportunity of smiling at the gravity of the author, or at the absurdity of the manners of those ages...
Page 54 - crafty and malicious," was unwilling, in spite of the entreaties of the Countess, to give his brother-in-law credit for this amount. The event seems to show that he here exhibited the prudence for which Froissart gave him credit. But the lady was bitterly wroth. " My lord," said she, " you do but scant honour to the King my brother when you will not trust him for fifty thousand francs. If you never got more out of the Armagnacs and Labrissiens* than you have had already...
Page 183 - She doubts of the virgin Mary's salvation, and dares not saint her, but knows her own place in heaven as perfectly as the pew she has a key to.
Page 230 - Majesty in that place, with so small an attendance, and that he thought his Majesty exposed himself to some danger. 'No kind of danger, James,' was the reply: 'for I am sure no man in England will take away my life to make you King.
Page 143 - Spain, which makes me apt to believe that that great wise knight, being such an anti-Spaniard, was made a sacrifice to advance the matrimonial treaty. But I must needs wonder, as you justly do, that one and the same man should be condemned for being a friend to the Spaniard (which was the ground of his first condemnation), and afterwards lose his head for being their enemy by the same sentence.