Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Band 41812 |
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... rendered them unalienable . With an ambition no less enterprising , and more prepos- terous , they appropriated to themselves titles of honour , as well as offices of power or trust . These personal marks of distinction , which the ...
... rendered them unalienable . With an ambition no less enterprising , and more prepos- terous , they appropriated to themselves titles of honour , as well as offices of power or trust . These personal marks of distinction , which the ...
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... 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 eleventh century . Robertson . manners . THE ...
... 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 eleventh century . Robertson . manners . THE ...
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... render a peculiar set of manners habitual Of this kind are the nature of the govern- ment , the revolutions of public affairs , the plenty or penury in which the people live , the situation of the nation with regard to its neighbours ...
... render a peculiar set of manners habitual Of this kind are the nature of the govern- ment , the revolutions of public affairs , the plenty or penury in which the people live , the situation of the nation with regard to its neighbours ...
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... rendered him one of the richest mo- narchs in Europe , he was not content with all that opulence , but by authorising the sheriffs , who col- lected his revenues in the several counties , to practise the most grievous vexations and ...
... rendered him one of the richest mo- narchs in Europe , he was not content with all that opulence , but by authorising the sheriffs , who col- lected his revenues in the several counties , to practise the most grievous vexations and ...
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... rendered him as much a prisoner in the hands of his own ministers and favourites , and as little at his own disposal , as when detained a captive in the hands of his enemies . From this source , rather than from insincerity and ...
... rendered him as much a prisoner in the hands of his own ministers and favourites , and as little at his own disposal , as when detained a captive in the hands of his enemies . From this source , rather than from insincerity and ...
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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.