The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 33-34 |
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... Never , an please you ! ' replied the countryman , ' but my father has been here many a time and oft . ' The anecdote of the old soldier is still more to his credit : he solicited the Emperor to defend him in a suit ; Augustus sent his ...
... Never , an please you ! ' replied the countryman , ' but my father has been here many a time and oft . ' The anecdote of the old soldier is still more to his credit : he solicited the Emperor to defend him in a suit ; Augustus sent his ...
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... never attained to empire , he would have had a most disgraceful page in history ; on the other hand , had Tiberius died with Germanicus , he would have merited a very glorious one : it should seem , therefore , that he was by nature a ...
... never attained to empire , he would have had a most disgraceful page in history ; on the other hand , had Tiberius died with Germanicus , he would have merited a very glorious one : it should seem , therefore , that he was by nature a ...
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... never turned his thoughts to any important busi- ness , or , in other words , any matter of state what- ever . The secrecy of this conference very much favours my conjecture , that he made an attempt to dissuade Tiberius from holding on ...
... never turned his thoughts to any important busi- ness , or , in other words , any matter of state what- ever . The secrecy of this conference very much favours my conjecture , that he made an attempt to dissuade Tiberius from holding on ...
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... never stirred out of the doors of his palace , devot- ing his whole time to the affairs of government . In this period he certainly did many excellent things ; and though his manners were not calculated for popularity , yet his ...
... never stirred out of the doors of his palace , devot- ing his whole time to the affairs of government . In this period he certainly did many excellent things ; and though his manners were not calculated for popularity , yet his ...
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... never in his sound mind during his secession in the Island of Capreæ . A number of circumstances might be adduced in support of this conjecture ; it is sufficient to instance his extraordinary letter to the senate ; can words be found ...
... never in his sound mind during his secession in the Island of Capreæ . A number of circumstances might be adduced in support of this conjecture ; it is sufficient to instance his extraordinary letter to the senate ; can words be found ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Página 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...
Página 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Página 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Página 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Página 94 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Página 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Página 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Página 123 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...