Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volumul 41812 |
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Pagina 6
... lived in disorder and ignorance ; and the common people without industry , and stupified in their wretched- ness . The French had no share either in the great discoveries , or admirable inventions of other na- tions they have no title ...
... lived in disorder and ignorance ; and the common people without industry , and stupified in their wretched- ness . The French had no share either in the great discoveries , or admirable inventions of other na- tions they have no title ...
Pagina 26
... lived many months as a private senator , and with perfect security , in that city where he had exercised the most bloody tyranny ; but nothing was thought to be greater in his character , than that , during the three years in which the ...
... lived many months as a private senator , and with perfect security , in that city where he had exercised the most bloody tyranny ; but nothing was thought to be greater in his character , than that , during the three years in which the ...
Pagina 27
... lived to drive Marius himself , banished and proscribed , into that very province where he had been contemned by him at first as his quæstor . He had a wonderful faculty of concealing his passions and purposes ; and was so different ...
... lived to drive Marius himself , banished and proscribed , into that very province where he had been contemned by him at first as his quæstor . He had a wonderful faculty of concealing his passions and purposes ; and was so different ...
Pagina 29
... lived in a perpetual expectation of receiving from the gift of the people , what he did not care to seize by force ; and , by fomenting the disorders of the city , hoped to drive them to the necessity of creating him dictator . It is an ...
... lived in a perpetual expectation of receiving from the gift of the people , what he did not care to seize by force ; and , by fomenting the disorders of the city , hoped to drive them to the necessity of creating him dictator . It is an ...
Pagina 37
... lived . His constitution enabled him to endure any hardships , and very few were equal to him in personal strength , which was an excel- lence of more importance than it is now , from the inanner of fighting then in use . It is said of ...
... lived . His constitution enabled him to endure any hardships , and very few were equal to him in personal strength , which was an excel- lence of more importance than it is now , from the inanner of fighting then in use . It is said of ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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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.