Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volumul 41812 |
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Pagina 1
... human mind , are examples for posterity . The first of these ages , to which true glory is annexed , is that of Philip and Alexander , or that of a Pericles , a Demosthenes , an Aristotle , a Plato , an Apelles , a Phidias , and a ...
... human mind , are examples for posterity . The first of these ages , to which true glory is annexed , is that of Philip and Alexander , or that of a Pericles , a Demosthenes , an Aristotle , a Plato , an Apelles , a Phidias , and a ...
Pagina 3
... human reason was in general more improved . In this age we first became acquainted with sound philo . sophy . It may truly be said , that from the last years of cardinal Richelieu's administration till those which followed the death of ...
... human reason was in general more improved . In this age we first became acquainted with sound philo . sophy . It may truly be said , that from the last years of cardinal Richelieu's administration till those which followed the death of ...
Pagina 19
... human society : it is in most points opposite to that of a soldier , as is the way of life from which it is derived . Hume . CHARACTER OF EPAMINONDAS . EPAMINONDAS was born and educated in that honest poverty which those less corrupted ...
... human society : it is in most points opposite to that of a soldier , as is the way of life from which it is derived . Hume . CHARACTER OF EPAMINONDAS . EPAMINONDAS was born and educated in that honest poverty which those less corrupted ...
Pagina 32
... human greatness , he , who a few days before commanded kings and consuls , and all the noblest of Rome , was sentenced to die by a council of slaves ; murdered by a base deserter ; cast out naked and headless on the Egyptian strand ...
... human greatness , he , who a few days before commanded kings and consuls , and all the noblest of Rome , was sentenced to die by a council of slaves ; murdered by a base deserter ; cast out naked and headless on the Egyptian strand ...
Pagina 33
... human nature , and give a man the ascendant in society : formed to excel in peace , as well as war ; provident in council : VOL . IV . F fearless in action ; and executing what he had re- BOOK VII . 33 HISTORICAL . Character of Julius ...
... human nature , and give a man the ascendant in society : formed to excel in peace , as well as war ; provident in council : VOL . IV . F fearless in action ; and executing what he had re- BOOK VII . 33 HISTORICAL . Character of Julius ...
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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.