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Vol. I, p. 265
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.”
Vol. I, p. 53
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
Vol. I, ch. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=R18JAAAAQAAJ&q=%22In+composing+as+a+general+rule+run+your+pen+through+every+other+word+you+have+written+you+have+no+idea+what+vigour+it+will+give+your+style%22&pg=PA382#v=onepage
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Peter Plymley's Letters (1808), Letter IV
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 6
Vol. I, p. 267
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.”
"America", published in The Edinburgh Review (July 1824)
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364
Vol. I, ch. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=RpYEAAAAYAAJ&q="You+remember+Thurlow's+answer+to+some+one+complaining+of+the+injustice+of+a+company+Why+you+never+expected+justice+from+a+company+did+you+they+have+neither+a+soul+to+lose+nor+a+body+to+kick"&pg=PA331#v=onepage
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“Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.”
Vol. I, p. 157
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
As quoted in "Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831" by David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen, in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 44, No. 175, (1993), pp. 430-432
Letter to Lord Jeffrey
“That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.”
Vol. I, ch. 2
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
"Of Friendship"
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Speech at Taunton (1813)
Vol. I, ch. 11
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855) Vol. I, ch. 11, p. 415
Variante: Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
Introduction
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
Vol. I, p. 17
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.”
On American Debts, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As the French say, there are three sexes, — men, women, and clergymen.”
Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.”
"Ireland", published in The Edinburgh Review (1820)
“Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.”
Vol. I, ch. 9
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