Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volum 41812 |
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Pàgina 18
... sure and gallantry ; by their frequent change of company they acquire good - breeding and an openness of behaviour ; being employed only against a public and open enemy , they become candid , honest , and undesigning and as they use ...
... sure and gallantry ; by their frequent change of company they acquire good - breeding and an openness of behaviour ; being employed only against a public and open enemy , they become candid , honest , and undesigning and as they use ...
Pàgina 21
... sure , was too much unguarded , and must lay a foundation of a most destructive practice : al- though , from his temper and constitution , he made his life sufficiently pleasurable to himself and agreeable to the rules of true ...
... sure , was too much unguarded , and must lay a foundation of a most destructive practice : al- though , from his temper and constitution , he made his life sufficiently pleasurable to himself and agreeable to the rules of true ...
Pàgina 57
... sure proof of his mag- nanimity ; and that the earl relied so on his friend- ship , is no less a proof of his established character for candour and sincerity . There remain , in history , few instances of such VOL . IV . I * mutual ...
... sure proof of his mag- nanimity ; and that the earl relied so on his friend- ship , is no less a proof of his established character for candour and sincerity . There remain , in history , few instances of such VOL . IV . I * mutual ...
Pàgina 123
... sure tests of real good- nature , for no man can long together simulate or dissimulate at home . He was a warm friend , and a warm enemy ; defects , if defects they are , inseparable in human nature , and often accompanying the most ...
... sure tests of real good- nature , for no man can long together simulate or dissimulate at home . He was a warm friend , and a warm enemy ; defects , if defects they are , inseparable in human nature , and often accompanying the most ...
Pàgina 138
... sure I am not disposed to blame him . Let those who have betrayed him by their adulation , insult him with their malevolence . But what I do not presume to censure , I may have leave to lament . For a wise man , he seemed to me at that ...
... sure I am not disposed to blame him . Let those who have betrayed him by their adulation , insult him with their malevolence . But what I do not presume to censure , I may have leave to lament . For a wise man , he seemed to me at that ...
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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.