The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, 第 3 卷Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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第 85 頁 - Perigli siete giunti all' occidente A questa tanto picciola vigilia De' vostri sensi, ch' è del rimanente Non vogliate negar l' esperienza, Diretro al sol, del mondo senza gente. Considerate la vostra semenza : Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, Ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza.
第 304 頁 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
第 9 頁 - Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies.
第 478 頁 - Hope's delusive mine;' as Johnson finely says •; and I may also quote the celebrated lines of Dryden, equally philosophical and poetical:— 'When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit: Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
第 23 頁 - I further proclaim and make known that the Transvaal will remain a separate Government, with its own laws and legislature, and that it is the wish of Her Most Gracious Majesty that it shall enjoy the fullest legislative privileges compatible with the circumstances of the country and the intelligence of its people.
第 372 頁 - His understanding was keen, sceptical, inexhaustibly fertile in distinctions and objections ; his taste refined ; his sense of the ludicrous exquisite ; his temper placid and forgiving, but fastidious, and by no means prone either to malevolence or to enthusiastic admiration.
第 500 頁 - ... happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. The king has cur'd me, I humbly thank his grace ; and from these shoulders, These ruin'd pillars, out of pity taken A load would sink a navy, too much honour : O ! 'tis a burden, Cromwell, 'tis a burden Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.
第 315 頁 - ... opposition and private treachery, that the firmness of that noble person was put to the proof. He never stirred from his ground, no, not an inch. He remained fixed and determined, in principle, in measure, and in conduct. He practised no managements. He secured no retreat. He sought no apology.
第 542 頁 - Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling ; not a mean and grovelling thing, that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
第 60 頁 - I cannot examine and with which I have nothing to do, has made himself beyond all others prominent in the attempt to destroy the authority of the law, and to substitute what would end in being nothing more or less than anarchical oppression exercised upon the people of Ireland.