Their characters afford scarcely a point of contact. Elizabeth, inheriting a large share of the bold and bluff King Harry's temper...ament, was haughty, arrogant, coarse, and irascible; while with these fiercer qualities she mingled deep dissimulation and strange irresolution. Isabella, on the other hand, tempered the dignity of royal station with the most bland and courteous manners. Once resolved, she was constant in her purposes, and her conduct in public and private life was characterized by candor and integrity. Both may be said to have shown that magnanimity which is implied by the accomplishment of great objects in the face of great obstacles. But Elizabeth was desperately selfish; she was incapable of forgiving, not merely a real injury, but the slightest affront to her vanity; and she was merciless in exacting retribution. Isabella, on the other hand, lived only for others,--was ready at all times to sacrifice self to considerations of public duty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along,... step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country... forsakes me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be divert...ed from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory--the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have our pa...per allegories but ill comprehended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of f...eeling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »