Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Band 41812 |
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... vice , distinguished valour , and a peculiar hardi- ness and patience of discipline , he advanced him- self gradually through all the steps of military ho- nour , with the reputation of a brave and complete soldier . The obscurity of ...
... vice , distinguished valour , and a peculiar hardi- ness and patience of discipline , he advanced him- self gradually through all the steps of military ho- nour , with the reputation of a brave and complete soldier . The obscurity of ...
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... vice chance had given him so soft and delicate a quæstor . But , whether roused by the example , or stung by the reproach of his general , he be haved himself in that charge with the greatest vigour and courage , suffering no man to ...
... vice chance had given him so soft and delicate a quæstor . But , whether roused by the example , or stung by the reproach of his general , he be haved himself in that charge with the greatest vigour and courage , suffering no man to ...
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... vices , luxury , avarice , cruelty . ' He was the first of his family whose dead body was burnt ; for , having ordered Marius's remains to be taken out of his grave , and thrown into the river Anio , he was apprehensive of the same ...
... vices , luxury , avarice , cruelty . ' He was the first of his family whose dead body was burnt ; for , having ordered Marius's remains to be taken out of his grave , and thrown into the river Anio , he was apprehensive of the same ...
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... vices is somewhat exaggerated , his conduct affords little reason for contradicting the character which they have as- signed him , or for attributing to him any very es- timable qualities ; he seems to have been a violent and tyrannical ...
... vices is somewhat exaggerated , his conduct affords little reason for contradicting the character which they have as- signed him , or for attributing to him any very es- timable qualities ; he seems to have been a violent and tyrannical ...
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... vices , as a king , seem to have been the effect of troubles in which he was involved ; for , as a man , he was brave , open and liberal ; and , during the short calm that succeeded the tempest of his reign , he made a progress through ...
... vices , as a king , seem to have been the effect of troubles in which he was involved ; for , as a man , he was brave , open and liberal ; and , during the short calm that succeeded the tempest of his reign , he made a progress through ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Seite 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.