Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volumul 41812 |
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... Virtue commands Respect even from the Wicked . Fenelon . 188 Importance of Literature ...... Lord Lyttelton 192 Nothing is great that is unnatural and affected . Lord Lyttelton . 198 Whether the Ancients had more Virtue than the Moderns ...
... Virtue commands Respect even from the Wicked . Fenelon . 188 Importance of Literature ...... Lord Lyttelton 192 Nothing is great that is unnatural and affected . Lord Lyttelton . 198 Whether the Ancients had more Virtue than the Moderns ...
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... virtues . Violence and op- pression decreased , when it was reckoned meri- torious to check and to punish them . A scrupu- lous adherence to truth , with the most religious attention to fulfil every engagement , became the ...
... virtues . Violence and op- pression decreased , when it was reckoned meri- torious to check and to punish them . A scrupu- lous adherence to truth , with the most religious attention to fulfil every engagement , became the ...
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... virtue , tenderness , and humanity , and an exalted patriotism , he had learned , and soon displayed . To those ... virtues of peace and retirement . He had BOOK VIL . 19 HISTORICAL . Character of Epaminondas Leland.
... virtue , tenderness , and humanity , and an exalted patriotism , he had learned , and soon displayed . To those ... virtues of peace and retirement . He had BOOK VIL . 19 HISTORICAL . Character of Epaminondas Leland.
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Elegant extracts. the gentler virtues of peace and retirement . He had a soul capable of the most exalted and disin- terested friendship : the warmth of his benevo- lence supplied the deficiencies of his fortune ; his credit and good ...
Elegant extracts. the gentler virtues of peace and retirement . He had a soul capable of the most exalted and disin- terested friendship : the warmth of his benevo- lence supplied the deficiencies of his fortune ; his credit and good ...
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... virtue , or his phlegm at least , had not restrained him : but he 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 ...
... virtue , or his phlegm at least , had not restrained him : but he 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 ...
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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.