Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volumul 41812 |
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Pagina 4
... crown , had not a single ship ; the city of Paris contained not quite four hundred thousand men , and had not above four fine public edifices ; the other cities of the kingdom resembled those pitiful villages which we see on the other ...
... crown , had not a single ship ; the city of Paris contained not quite four hundred thousand men , and had not above four fine public edifices ; the other cities of the kingdom resembled those pitiful villages which we see on the other ...
Pagina 10
... crown soon extorted a confirmation for life of those grants of lands , which , being at first purely gratuitous , had been bestowed only during pleasure . Not satisfied with this , they prevailed to have them converted into hereditary ...
... crown soon extorted a confirmation for life of those grants of lands , which , being at first purely gratuitous , had been bestowed only during pleasure . Not satisfied with this , they prevailed to have them converted into hereditary ...
Pagina 11
... crown were dissolved . A kingdom , considerable in name and in extent , was broken into as many separate principalities as it contained powerful barons . A thousand causes of jealousy and discord subsisted among them , and gave rise to ...
... crown were dissolved . A kingdom , considerable in name and in extent , was broken into as many separate principalities as it contained powerful barons . A thousand causes of jealousy and discord subsisted among them , and gave rise to ...
Pagina 12
... crown all , time gradually fixed and rendered venerable this pernicious system , which violence had established . Such was the state of Europe with respect to the interior ad- ministration of government , from the seventh to the ...
... crown all , time gradually fixed and rendered venerable this pernicious system , which violence had established . Such was the state of Europe with respect to the interior ad- ministration of government , from the seventh to the ...
Pagina 38
... him slight a weak and subdued enemy , such as was Edgar Atheling , in whom he found neither spirit nor talents able to contend with him for the crown . But where he had no advantage nor pride 38 BOOK VII . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... him slight a weak and subdued enemy , such as was Edgar Atheling , in whom he found neither spirit nor talents able to contend with him for the crown . But where he had no advantage nor pride 38 BOOK VII . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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Pasaje populare
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.