En Avant, Messieurs!: Being a Tutor's Counsel to His PupilsJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867 - 271 páginas |
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... difficulty consisted , he told me that it arose from no defect of memory ; he could easily recollect the meanings of the words in a Latin sentence , but he never could get them into continuous sense without more toil than the results ...
... difficulty consisted , he told me that it arose from no defect of memory ; he could easily recollect the meanings of the words in a Latin sentence , but he never could get them into continuous sense without more toil than the results ...
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... difficulties of the privates , were the fruit of studies in the " piping days of peace , " - peace which all men reasonably expected to last for at least the next half century . In fact , the occurrence of war is always a matter of the ...
... difficulties of the privates , were the fruit of studies in the " piping days of peace , " - peace which all men reasonably expected to last for at least the next half century . In fact , the occurrence of war is always a matter of the ...
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... difficulties will be most serviceable to any officer , whether general or subaltern , when he is himself similiarly ... difficulty will be in choice of subject , you are met by an embarras de richesses ; as regards military history ...
... difficulties will be most serviceable to any officer , whether general or subaltern , when he is himself similiarly ... difficulty will be in choice of subject , you are met by an embarras de richesses ; as regards military history ...
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... difficulties and correct mis- takes ; all your requisites for any amount of study are the book itself , a good map ... difficulty weathering the gale of the army examination , has been of the greatest service to his regiment in India ...
... difficulties and correct mis- takes ; all your requisites for any amount of study are the book itself , a good map ... difficulty weathering the gale of the army examination , has been of the greatest service to his regiment in India ...
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... difficulties are just the points in life on which distinction or extinction hinge ; no wise man will wait for their arrival ; most of them , all perhaps , may be forestalled , and the mind may be so habituated to the examina- tion of a ...
... difficulties are just the points in life on which distinction or extinction hinge ; no wise man will wait for their arrival ; most of them , all perhaps , may be forestalled , and the mind may be so habituated to the examina- tion of a ...
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amusement ancient army battle Brutus Cæsar character Charles Napier Cicero composition court-martial Demosthenes doubt drawing English equally essay express fact feelings foreign French German give ground guage honor hustings ideas idle India Indian mutiny instance interest knowledge labor language Latin least less lesson lord Malaprop master means ment metaphor meter military mind Napier Naples nature Nervii ness never notice novels once orator parish passion Peninsular War perfect perhaps picture play pleasure poet poetry powers principles profes profession prose regiment reply rich rich little Roman scene Scott's sentence Shakspeare similes simple society soldier speech spirit style subject-to sure Swiss guards taste tell thing thought Thucydides tion truth tumbrel Walcheren expedition Warren Hast words worth write young officer
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Página 104 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 146 - And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Página 124 - My lords, we are called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such notions standing near the throne, polluting the ear of majesty. " That God and nature put into our hands...
Página 167 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 117 - their bluest veins to kiss' - the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross; and above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of...
Página 117 - ... delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes ; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates,' their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves beside them, interrupted and dim, like the morning...
Página 104 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 122 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 188 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Página 116 - ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory...