ProseSamuel Walker, 1826 |
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Side 510
... human greatnefs , he , who a few days before commanded kings and confuls , and all the nobleft of Rome , was fen- tenced to die by a council of flaves ; murdered by a bafe deferter ; caft out naked and headlefs on the Egyptian ftrand ...
... human greatnefs , he , who a few days before commanded kings and confuls , and all the nobleft of Rome , was fen- tenced to die by a council of flaves ; murdered by a bafe deferter ; caft out naked and headlefs on the Egyptian ftrand ...
Side 521
... human kind ! who art not only able to imitate Nature in her graces , but even to adorn her with graces of thine own ! Poffeffed of thee , the meaneft genius grows deferving , and has a just demand for a portion of our efteem : devoid of ...
... human kind ! who art not only able to imitate Nature in her graces , but even to adorn her with graces of thine own ! Poffeffed of thee , the meaneft genius grows deferving , and has a just demand for a portion of our efteem : devoid of ...
Side 523
... humanity . You will thus fhew more wifdom , than by dwelling on thofe fubjects which have puffed up your pride , and made you forget yourself . You fee how little you are likely to gain by attempting the conqueft of Scy- thia . On the ...
... humanity . You will thus fhew more wifdom , than by dwelling on thofe fubjects which have puffed up your pride , and made you forget yourself . You fee how little you are likely to gain by attempting the conqueft of Scy- thia . On the ...
Side 524
... humanity , and trampling on the authority of the Roman commonwealth - procured the murder of my unfortunate brother , and has driven me from my throne and native country , though he knows I inherit , from my grandfather Mafiiniffa , and ...
... humanity , and trampling on the authority of the Roman commonwealth - procured the murder of my unfortunate brother , and has driven me from my throne and native country , though he knows I inherit , from my grandfather Mafiiniffa , and ...
Side 526
... human af- fairs . So far from having it in my pow- er to revenge his death , I am not mafter of the means of fecuring my own life : fo far from being in a condition to de- fend my kingdom from the violence of the ufurper , I am obliged ...
... human af- fairs . So far from having it in my pow- er to revenge his death , I am not mafter of the means of fecuring my own life : fo far from being in a condition to de- fend my kingdom from the violence of the ufurper , I am obliged ...
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Side 729 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Side 657 - The curse never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear ! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin...
Side 505 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Side 514 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Side 883 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Side 778 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Side 725 - ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Side 831 - I shall say but little at present of their Learning, which for many Ages hath flourished in all its Branches among them : But their manner of Writing is very peculiar, being neither from the Left to the Right, like the Europeans ; nor from the Right to the Left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese , nor from down to up, like the Cascagians ; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like Ladies in England.
Side 870 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Side 585 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. " But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.