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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7. oldal
... took the bat and ball into his hand , and said , " This is the emblem of my power , with which I strike the ball of your monarch's dominion , and this fowl ( he had ordered one to be brought ) will soon shew you what a morsel your ...
... took the bat and ball into his hand , and said , " This is the emblem of my power , with which I strike the ball of your monarch's dominion , and this fowl ( he had ordered one to be brought ) will soon shew you what a morsel your ...
15. oldal
... took the boy with him , and gave him a situation to attend on his person . 66 SAGACITY OF A NEGRO BOY . Philip Thicknesse tells the following amusing story of a little negro boy in the West Indies . His master finding him a child of ...
... took the boy with him , and gave him a situation to attend on his person . 66 SAGACITY OF A NEGRO BOY . Philip Thicknesse tells the following amusing story of a little negro boy in the West Indies . His master finding him a child of ...
16. oldal
... took the fifteen francs . The third also made the same choice . He now came to the fourth , a young lad of about thirteen or fourteen . The Quaker looked at him with an air of goodness . Will you too take these three pieces , which you ...
... took the fifteen francs . The third also made the same choice . He now came to the fourth , a young lad of about thirteen or fourteen . The Quaker looked at him with an air of goodness . Will you too take these three pieces , which you ...
17. oldal
... as delineated by Quintus Curtius . His ambition was fired by the heroic actions of that conqueror ; and he took particular plea- sure in reading and relating them to others . On c 3 YOUTH . 17 CHARLES THE TWELFTH. ...
... as delineated by Quintus Curtius . His ambition was fired by the heroic actions of that conqueror ; and he took particular plea- sure in reading and relating them to others . On c 3 YOUTH . 17 CHARLES THE TWELFTH. ...
18. oldal
... took the liberty to tell him , that his favourite historian was no better than a writer of romances ; which touched the young viscount to the quick . The duchess , his mother , made a sign to the officer to persist ; the dispute grew ...
... took the liberty to tell him , that his favourite historian was no better than a writer of romances ; which touched the young viscount to the quick . The duchess , his mother , made a sign to the officer to persist ; the dispute grew ...
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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...