Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volum 41812 |
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Pàgina 4
... thousand men , and had not above four fine public edifices ; the other cities of the kingdom resembled those pitiful villages which we see on the other side of the Loire . The nobility , who were all stationed in the country , in ...
... thousand men , and had not above four fine public edifices ; the other cities of the kingdom resembled those pitiful villages which we see on the other side of the Loire . The nobility , who were all stationed in the country , in ...
Pàgina 7
... thousand years , constitutes what we call the middle age . Dominion passed during this interval into the hands of rude , illiterate men : men who conquer- ed more by multitude than by military skill ; and who , having little or no taste ...
... thousand years , constitutes what we call the middle age . Dominion passed during this interval into the hands of rude , illiterate men : men who conquer- ed more by multitude than by military skill ; and who , having little or no taste ...
Pàgina 11
... thousand causes of jealousy and discord subsisted among them , and gave rise to as many wars . Every country in Europe , wasted or kept in alarm during these end- less contests , was filled with castles or places of strength , erected ...
... thousand causes of jealousy and discord subsisted among them , and gave rise to as many wars . Every country in Europe , wasted or kept in alarm during these end- less contests , was filled with castles or places of strength , erected ...
Pàgina 13
... thousand persons were assembled , pronounced the scheme to have been suggested by the immediate inspiration of Heaven . In the council of Cler- mont , still more numerous , as soon as the measure was proposed , all cried out with one ...
... thousand persons were assembled , pronounced the scheme to have been suggested by the immediate inspiration of Heaven . In the council of Cler- mont , still more numerous , as soon as the measure was proposed , all cried out with one ...
Pàgina 23
... raised troops among his own subjects , he returned a few days after to Scipio with a body of one thousand four hundred horse . From Livy . 6 ; CHARACTER OF MARIUS . THE birth of Marius was obscure BOOK VII . 23 HISTORICAL .
... raised troops among his own subjects , he returned a few days after to Scipio with a body of one thousand four hundred horse . From Livy . 6 ; CHARACTER OF MARIUS . THE birth of Marius was obscure BOOK VII . 23 HISTORICAL .
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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.