But Sir George has subsequently assured me that, but for this unfortunate occurrence, he could have made much better terms for me with the Spanish Government than from that period he thought it politic to demand.
Independently of the causes which left me but few papers relative to that period, those even which I have been able to preserve are not very exact with respect to dates.
Nothing ever gave me a clearer demonstration of the difference between filial dependence and abject slavery, than the remembrance of the change produced in me at that period.
I say, if possible, imagine all this, for I am incapable of giving the least idea of what passed in my mind at that period.
At that period my love for Canada was a feeling very nearly allied to that which the condemned criminal entertains for his cell--his only hope of escape being through the portals of the grave.
Nor was the effect of the discussions and speculations of that period confined to our own country.
The most animated debates of that period were on road bills and enclosure bills.
Of a youth whose mind, like mine at that period, possessed some general capability, without perhaps a single prominent and marked talent, a proneness to imitation is sure to be the besetting sin.
A friendly and genial critic speaks of your green old age as illustrating the truth of some axiom you had uttered with reference to that period of life.
I shall have complete copies before I get to that period, one of signal interest, and which has never been described.
It was a horrible thing at that period to be imprisoned by the enmity of the king.
The following Sunday, then, the Parisians arose with joy; at that period a Te Deum was a grand affair; this kind of ceremony had not then been abused and it produced a great effect.
It is painful to recall that secret dark chapter of my life--that period of moral insanity.
Doubtless I met with help from the natives, otherwise I do not see how I could have continued my journey; yet in my dim mental picture of that period I see myself incessantly dogged by hostile savages.
My thoughts at that periodof suffering were pessimistic in the extreme.
Rousseau, for once expressing the truth, render the reading of that period of her history almost impossible to a humane man, had sunk her almost completely in degradation.
Neither at that period, nor later on save once under Henry VIII.
With what trifles atthat period are we content; the things from which in after- life we should turn away in disdain please us then, for we are in the midst of a golden cloud, and everything seems decked with a golden hue.
I closed my eyes, and wished that I might be dreaming; but it was no dream, but a terrific reality: I will not dwell on that period, I should only shock you.
The evidence was sent to the Roman court; but at that period it did not appear strong enough to warrant the arrest of the Cenci family, who remained undisturbed for many months, during which time the youngest boy died.
Their fortune resembled many others of that period: it was more nominal than actual, more showy than solid.
As usual at that period, one or two high-ridged narrow buildings, intersecting and crossing each other, formed the CORPS DE LOGIS.
The mountaineers of that period had a superstitious dread of the war-horse, like that entertained by the Peruvians, and had many strange ideas respecting the manner in which that animal was trained to combat.
On reading the Italian authors of that period attentively, we are astounded at the keenness and accuracy with which outward features are seized, and at the completeness with which personal appearance in general is described.
The correspondence of that period is full of references to personal relations of this kind.
The value to be attached to them is all the more qualified as they mostly touch on the life of the upper classes, with respect to which we are far better informed in Italy than in any other country in Europe at that period.
It was at that period, on the death of a nobleman interested in restraining me--I was his debtor for kindnesses.
My senses even up to that period were so impressionable as to be swayed by a rich dress and a grand manner when circumstances were not too unfavourable.
I caught myself regretting my coldness of that period; for which regrets I could have swung the scourge upon my miserable flesh.
She hoped she was not very wrong in preferring the times of the great Venetian painters and martial doges to that period of faith and stone-cutting.
Young Mr. Beauchamp at that period of the panic had not the slightest feeling for the taxpayer.
This caused a rumour that a slight fall of the Funds, which took place at that period, was occasioned by the bankruptcy; and the First Consul, who never could understand the nature of the Funds, gave credit to the report.
The First Consul visited the exhibition, and as even at that period he had begun to attribute every good result to himself, he seemed proud of the high degree of perfection the manufacturing arts had attained in France.
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