The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, 3. kötetT. Boys, 1826 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 51 találatból.
7. oldal
... was unable to prevail . At length he took up the infant Cato in his arms , and carrying him to the win- dow , threatened to throw him over if he persisted in his refusal . His fear was as unavailing as entreaty YOUTH . 7.
... was unable to prevail . At length he took up the infant Cato in his arms , and carrying him to the win- dow , threatened to throw him over if he persisted in his refusal . His fear was as unavailing as entreaty YOUTH . 7.
11. oldal
... arm from the censer he carried , that the smell of the scorched flesh affected all who stood by . Yet the boy shrunk not ; exhi- bited no symptom of pain ; but kept his arm immove- able , lest by shaking the censer he should interrupt ...
... arm from the censer he carried , that the smell of the scorched flesh affected all who stood by . Yet the boy shrunk not ; exhi- bited no symptom of pain ; but kept his arm immove- able , lest by shaking the censer he should interrupt ...
12. oldal
... nimbly rushing under his adversary's arm , stabbed him under his cuirass , exclaiming , at the same time , " So , do the children of your country play in this fashion ? ' CHOICE OF AN IMPERIAL HEIR . Kang Hi was one 12 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... nimbly rushing under his adversary's arm , stabbed him under his cuirass , exclaiming , at the same time , " So , do the children of your country play in this fashion ? ' CHOICE OF AN IMPERIAL HEIR . Kang Hi was one 12 PERCY ANECDOTES .
18. oldal
... arms as far as he could reach . When he was asked why he had chosen such a couch , he answered , " That he intended to have slept there all night , to convince his father that he was hardy enough to undergo the fatigues of war ; though ...
... arms as far as he could reach . When he was asked why he had chosen such a couch , he answered , " That he intended to have slept there all night , to convince his father that he was hardy enough to undergo the fatigues of war ; though ...
27. oldal
... arms , and said , in em- bracing him , " Very well , my young friend , 1 cannot be guarded better than by my own people ; in the mean time I wish to récompence your zeal ; and in the hope of making you one day a great general , I now ...
... arms , and said , in em- bracing him , " Very well , my young friend , 1 cannot be guarded better than by my own people ; in the mean time I wish to récompence your zeal ; and in the hope of making you one day a great general , I now ...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [By] Sholto and Reuben Percy ... Sholto Percy,Reuben Percy Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2016 |
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26. oldal - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
105. oldal - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
24. oldal - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
118. oldal - I have known both hunger and nakedness to the utmost extremity of human suffering. I have known what it is to have food given me as charity to a madman; and I have at times been obliged to shelter myself under the miseries of that character, to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose.
64. oldal - I was sitting alone on a bench in the school, melancholy, and o2 almost ready to weep at the recollection of what I had already suffered, and expecting at the same time my tormentor every moment, these words of the Psalmist came into my mind : " I will not be afraid of what man can do unto me.
76. oldal - Having groped his passage to the horizontal part of the den, the most terrifying darkness appeared in front of the dim circle of light afforded by his torch. It was silent as the house of death. None but monsters of the desert had ever before explored this solitary mansion of horror.
77. oldal - The people at the mouth of the den, who had listened with painful anxiety, hearing the growling of the wolf and supposing their friend to be in the most imminent danger, drew him forth with such celerity that his shirt was stripped over his head and his skin severely lacerated. After he had adjusted his clothes and...
168. oldal - Thereupon the general rejoined: "Go, one of you, my lads, to Colonel Burton — ; tell him to march Webb's regiment with all speed down to Charles River, to cut off the retreat of the fugitives from the bridge.
76. oldal - Navarre, that day six weeks, by nine o'clock in the morning, when he would attend them and be ready to answer to whatever should be proposed to him in any art or science, and in any of these twelve languages : Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonian ; and this either in verse or prose, at the discretion of the disputant.
155. oldal - I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes...