Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Band 41812 |
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... Marriage sacrificed to Love ... Docility in Youth gives the best Hope lence Marriage of his False Delicacy . 273 ... Colman . 275 of future Excel- Cumberland . 281 ELEGANT EXTRACTS , FROM THE MOST EMINENT PROSE WRITERS . CONTENTS .
... Marriage sacrificed to Love ... Docility in Youth gives the best Hope lence Marriage of his False Delicacy . 273 ... Colman . 275 of future Excel- Cumberland . 281 ELEGANT EXTRACTS , FROM THE MOST EMINENT PROSE WRITERS . CONTENTS .
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... give a beginning to that wild enterprise . Peter the Hermit , for that was the name of that martial apostle , ran from province to province with a crucifix in his hand , exciting princes and 12 BOOK VII . ELEGANT EXTRACTS . The Crusades ...
... give a beginning to that wild enterprise . Peter the Hermit , for that was the name of that martial apostle , ran from province to province with a crucifix in his hand , exciting princes and 12 BOOK VII . ELEGANT EXTRACTS . The Crusades ...
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... give battle , used to embrace it in sight of the soldiers , and beg the speedy confirmation of its promises to him . From an uninterrupted course of success and prosperity , he assumed a surname , unknown before to the Romans , of Felix ...
... give battle , used to embrace it in sight of the soldiers , and beg the speedy confirmation of its promises to him . From an uninterrupted course of success and prosperity , he assumed a surname , unknown before to the Romans , of Felix ...
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... 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 Cæsar Middleton.
... 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 Cæsar Middleton.
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... give , all the knowledge and skill that expe- rience could teach , and was a perfect master of the military art , as it was practised in the times wherein he lived . His constitution enabled him to endure any hardships , and very few ...
... give , all the knowledge and skill that expe- rience could teach , and was a perfect master of the military art , as it was practised in the times wherein he lived . His constitution enabled him to endure any hardships , and very few ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Seite 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.