Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volume 41812 |
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... Causes of National Characters Character of Epaminondas Character of Epicurus Character of Scipio Africanus Character of Marius . Character of Scylla ... Character of Pompey ............ Character of Cato ... Character of Julius Cæsar ...
... Causes of National Characters Character of Epaminondas Character of Epicurus Character of Scipio Africanus Character of Marius . Character of Scylla ... Character of Pompey ............ Character of Cato ... Character of Julius Cæsar ...
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... 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 for the ...
... 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 for the ...
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... cause chivalry was regarded as the school of ho- nour , and inculcated the most delicate sensibility with respect to those points . The admiration of these qualities , together with the high distinctions and prerogatives conferred on ...
... cause chivalry was regarded as the school of ho- nour , and inculcated the most delicate sensibility with respect to those points . The admiration of these qualities , together with the high distinctions and prerogatives conferred on ...
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... CAUSES OF NATIONAL CHARACTERS . THE vulgar are very apt to carry all national characters to extremes ; and having once establish- ed it as a principle , that any people are knavish , or cowardly , or ignorant , they will admit of no ...
... CAUSES OF NATIONAL CHARACTERS . THE vulgar are very apt to carry all national characters to extremes ; and having once establish- ed it as a principle , that any people are knavish , or cowardly , or ignorant , they will admit of no ...
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... causes . By moral causes , I mean all circumstances which are fitted to work on the mind , as motives or reasons , and which render a peculiar set of manners habitual Of this kind are the nature of the govern- ment , the revolutions of ...
... causes . By moral causes , I mean all circumstances which are fitted to work on the mind , as motives or reasons , and which render a peculiar set of manners habitual Of this kind are the nature of the govern- ment , the revolutions of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration affable affection agreeable ambition appeared arts ASPASIO avarice beauty Boil Cæsar character Charles Chesterfield Cicero conduct countess of Somerset court crown danger death desired dignity disposition earl Edward Edward VI elegant enemies England equally errours Europe execution father favour favourite fortune give glory hand happy heart Henry Henry VIII honour house of lords human Hume Iago king kingdom lady Jane LADY JANE GREY learning less lived lord LORD BOLINGBROKE LORD TOWNSHEND mankind manners Mary matter ment mind minister monarch moral narch nation nature neral never noble passions perfect person philosopher Plato pleasure Pompey Pope possessed prince princess qualities queen racter reason regard reign religion rendered replied Rizio Roger Ascham seemed Sir John soul sovereign spirit Sterl subjects talents temper thing thou thought throne tion truth uncle Toby vices vigour violence virtue writers zeal
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.