Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volum 41812 |
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Pàgina 5
... less in this infirm state , merely for want of the benefit of a good administration . For a state to be powerful , the people must either enjoy a liberty founded on the laws , or the royal authority must be fixed beyond all opposi- tion ...
... less in this infirm state , merely for want of the benefit of a good administration . For a state to be powerful , the people must either enjoy a liberty founded on the laws , or the royal authority must be fixed beyond all opposi- tion ...
Pàgina 8
... less so , yet none tending to furnish us with any high or promising ideas . And yet we must acknowledge , for the honour of humanity and of its great and divine Author , who never forsakes it , that some sparks of intel- lect were at ...
... less so , yet none tending to furnish us with any high or promising ideas . And yet we must acknowledge , for the honour of humanity and of its great and divine Author , who never forsakes it , that some sparks of intel- lect were at ...
Pàgina 10
... 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 public administration bestows on illustrious merit ...
... 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 public administration bestows on illustrious merit ...
Pàgina 11
... less contests , was filled with castles or places of strength , erected for the security of the inhabi- tants , not against foreign force , but against in- ternal hostilities . An universal anarchy , destruc- tive in a great measure of ...
... less contests , was filled with castles or places of strength , erected for the security of the inhabi- tants , not against foreign force , but against in- ternal hostilities . An universal anarchy , destruc- tive in a great measure of ...
Pàgina 15
... less ferocity , when humanity came to be deemed the or- nament of knighthood no less than courage . More gentle and polished manners were introduced , when courtesy was recommended as the most amiable of knightly virtues . Violence and ...
... less ferocity , when humanity came to be deemed the or- nament of knighthood no less than courage . More gentle and polished manners were introduced , when courtesy was recommended as the most amiable of knightly virtues . Violence and ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Pàgina 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.