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Page 185 - Gracious heaven ! if I am doomed to be wretched, bury me beneath Iceland snows, and let me feed on blubber; stretch me under the burning line, and deny me thy propitious dews ; nay, if it be thy will, suffocate me with the infected and pestilential air of a democratic club-room ; but save me from the desk of an attorney ! Mr.
Page 390 - Athenian Letters, or the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Page 361 - Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper and of obdurate heart, has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred.
Page 29 - Amerigo arrived at Brazil, and discovered the Bay of All Saints. In 1505 he again entered the service of the king of Spain, but made no more voyages, as appears from memoranda, showing that he was at Seville till 1508, at which time he was appointed principal pilot. His duties were to prepare charts, and prescribe routes for vessels in their voyages to the new world, which soon received his name. This...
Page 358 - He soon, however, became an object of great notoriety ; for a bill having been introduced into the house, in 1780, for the relief of Roman Catholics from certain penalties and disabilities, he collected a mob, at the head of whom he marched to present a petition against the proposed measure. The dreadful...
Page 100 - Inchest offices under the government of Theodoric the Goth. He was long the oracle of his sovereign and the idol of the people ; but his strict integrity and inflexible justice raised up enemies in those who loved extortion and oppression, and he at last fell a victim to their machinations. He was accused of a treasonable correspondence with the court of Constantinople, and executed in 524.
Page 136 - He was employed by the Congress of New Granada to complete the flora of Bogota, when the disturbed state of public affairs interrupted the work ; and himself and colleague, Don Losano, were put to death. Caldas, PEREIBA DE SOUZA ANTONIA, a Brazilian poet, b. Rio de Janeiro, 1762 ; d. 1814. He studied at Coimbra, but, on being consigned to a convent by the Inquisition, took holy orders. His writings were pub. in Paris, 1821, entitled...
Page 142 - Microcosm," a periodical work conducted by the senior 1 scholars. At Oxford also he distinguished himself, and proceeded thence to Lincoln's Inn, his oratorical talents suggesting the bar as the profession "best adapted for him. Being, introduced to the house of commons by Mr. Pitt, he abandoned the bar, and devoted himself wholly to politics. His strenuous and able support; of the minister was rewarded in 1796 with an under secretaryship of state; and in the year 1800 he "was placed in affluence...
Page 215 - Parliament; and in 1642, when it was resolved to levy forces to oppose the king, Cromwell received a commission from the Earl of Essex, and raised a troop of horse at Cambridge, of which he, of course, had the command.
Page 102 - Bolivar addressed a letter from Caraccas to the president of the senate, renouncing the presidency of the republic, and expressing a determination to repel the imputations of ambition cast upon him, by retiring to seclusion upon his patrimonial estate. Santander, in reply...