Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Том 41812 |
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... fortune ; his credit and good offices frequently were employed to gain that relief for the necessities of others , which his own circumstances could not grant them ; within the narrow sphere of these were his desires regularly confined ...
... fortune ; his credit and good offices frequently were employed to gain that relief for the necessities of others , which his own circumstances could not grant them ; within the narrow sphere of these were his desires regularly confined ...
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... fortune exempted him from care and solicitude ; his valetudinarian habit of body from intempe- He passed the greatest part of his time in his garden , where he enjoyed all the elegant amuse- ments of life . There he studied . There he ...
... fortune exempted him from care and solicitude ; his valetudinarian habit of body from intempe- He passed the greatest part of his time in his garden , where he enjoyed all the elegant amuse- ments of life . There he studied . There he ...
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... fortunes : or to have the command of a difficult and desperate war : and , in truth , he twice delivered them from the most desperate , with which they had been threat- ened by a foreign enemy . Scipio , from the obser- vation of his ...
... fortunes : or to have the command of a difficult and desperate war : and , in truth , he twice delivered them from the most desperate , with which they had been threat- ened by a foreign enemy . Scipio , from the obser- vation of his ...
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... fortunes , what gratitude was there to be expected from a court governed by eunuchs and mercenary Greeks ? all whose politics turned , not on the honour of the king , but the establishment of their own power ; which was likely to be ...
... fortunes , what gratitude was there to be expected from a court governed by eunuchs and mercenary Greeks ? all whose politics turned , not on the honour of the king , but the establishment of their own power ; which was likely to be ...
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... Fortune herself . Nor was he less superior to pleasure than to fear no luxury softened him , no riot disordered , no sloth relaxed . It helped not a little to main- tain the high respect his subjects had for him , that the majesty of ...
... Fortune herself . Nor was he less superior to pleasure than to fear no luxury softened him , no riot disordered , no sloth relaxed . It helped not a little to main- tain the high respect his subjects had for him , that the majesty of ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Сторінка 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.