Classic French Course in English

Portada
Chautauqua Press, 1886 - 297 pàgines
 

Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot

Frases i termes més freqüents

Passatges populars

Pàgina 280 - Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus are those of a God.
Pàgina 279 - I will confess to you," — this is a man who had no faith in Christianity at all, — "I will confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel hath its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction ; how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the Scriptures ! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage,...
Pàgina 39 - ... the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us. By this liberty they entered into a very laudable emulation, to do all of them what they saw did please one. If any of the gallants or ladies should say, Let us drink, they would all drink. If any one of them said, Let us play, they all played.
Pàgina 39 - So nobly were they taught, that there was neither he nor she amongst them, but could read, write, sing, play upon several musical instruments, speak five or six several languages, and compose in them all very quaintly, both in verse and prose.
Pàgina 280 - Aristides had been just before Socrates defined justice ; Leonidas had given up his life for his country before Socrates declared patriotism to be a duty ; the Spartans were a sober people before Socrates recommended sobriety ; before he had even defined virtue, Greece abounded in virtuous men.
Pàgina 38 - ALL their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good: they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it, and were disposed for it.
Pàgina 22 - The King, who found himself very disagreeably situated, turning to him, asked, " To whom shall I surrender myself; to whom? Where is my cousin, the Prince of Wales ? If I could see him, I would speak to him." " Sire," replied Sir Denys, " he is not here; but surrender yourself to me, and I will lead you to him.
Pàgina 41 - At one time he assembled three or four especial good hacksters and roaring boys ; made them in the evening drink like Templars, afterwards led them till they came under St. Genevieve, or about the college of Navarre, and, at the hour that the watch was...
Pàgina 280 - How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation ? When Plato described his imaginary good man...
Pàgina 22 - In that part of the field was a young knight from St. Omer, who was engaged by a salary in the service of the King of England : his name was Denys de...

Informació bibliogràfica