Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volumul 41812 |
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Pagina 29
... . But his talents were better formed for arms than the gown ; for , though in both he observed the same discipline , a perpetual modesty , temperance , and gravity of outward behaviour ; yet in the licence of BOOK VI . 29 HISTORICAL .
... . But his talents were better formed for arms than the gown ; for , though in both he observed the same discipline , a perpetual modesty , temperance , and gravity of outward behaviour ; yet in the licence of BOOK VI . 29 HISTORICAL .
Pagina 30
... better than the citizen . His parts were plausible , rather than great ; speci- ous , rather than penetrating ; and his views of po- litics but narrow ; for his chief instrument of go- verning was dissimulation ; yet he had not always ...
... better than the citizen . His parts were plausible , rather than great ; speci- ous , rather than penetrating ; and his views of po- litics but narrow ; for his chief instrument of go- verning was dissimulation ; yet he had not always ...
Pagina 31
... better , and seen fur- ther into things than he . The resolution of seek- ing refuge in Egypt finished the sad catastrophe of this great man ; the father of the reigning prince had been highly obliged to him for his protection at Rome ...
... better , and seen fur- ther into things than he . The resolution of seek- ing refuge in Egypt finished the sad catastrophe of this great man ; the father of the reigning prince had been highly obliged to him for his protection at Rome ...
Pagina 45
... better calculated to dazzle men by the splendour of his enterprises , than either to promote their happiness , or his own grandeur by a sound and well - regulated policy . As military talents make great impression on the people , he ...
... better calculated to dazzle men by the splendour of his enterprises , than either to promote their happiness , or his own grandeur by a sound and well - regulated policy . As military talents make great impression on the people , he ...
Pagina 57
... better right to the throne than himself , is a sure proof of his mag- nanimity ; and that the earl relied so on his friend- ship , is no less a proof of his established character for candour and sincerity . There remain , in history ...
... better right to the throne than himself , is a sure proof of his mag- nanimity ; and that the earl relied so on his friend- ship , is no less a proof of his established character for candour and sincerity . There remain , in history ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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Pagina 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Pagina 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Pagina 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Pagina 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Pagina 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Pagina 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Pagina 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Pagina 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Pagina 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Pagina 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.