Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, 4. kötet1812 |
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51. oldal
... feel his power without their daring , or even being inclined to murmur at it ; his affable and obliging behaviour , his munificence and generosity , made them sub- mit with pleasure to his dominion ; his valour and conduct made them ...
... feel his power without their daring , or even being inclined to murmur at it ; his affable and obliging behaviour , his munificence and generosity , made them sub- mit with pleasure to his dominion ; his valour and conduct made them ...
52. oldal
... feel the infirmities of old age , before they approach the common course of nature : and now he was seized with a malignant fever , attended with eruptions , that soon put a period to his life . When his distemper became so violent ...
... feel the infirmities of old age , before they approach the common course of nature : and now he was seized with a malignant fever , attended with eruptions , that soon put a period to his life . When his distemper became so violent ...
91. oldal
... feeling , he held it in the flames till it was entirely con- sumed . His thoughts seemed wholly occupied with reflections on his former fault , and he called ' aloud several times , This hand has offended . ' Satisfied with that ...
... feeling , he held it in the flames till it was entirely con- sumed . His thoughts seemed wholly occupied with reflections on his former fault , and he called ' aloud several times , This hand has offended . ' Satisfied with that ...
98. oldal
... a sound constitution , and the reward of uncommon regularity and temperance , Eliza- beth began , this winter , ( 1603 ) to feel her vigour decrease , and to be sensible of the infirmities of 98 BOOK VIL . ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Robertson.
... a sound constitution , and the reward of uncommon regularity and temperance , Eliza- beth began , this winter , ( 1603 ) to feel her vigour decrease , and to be sensible of the infirmities of 98 BOOK VIL . ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Robertson.
121. oldal
... feel and all we fear , was not the effect of ignorance , mistake , or what we call chance , but of design and scheme in those who had the sway at that time . I am not so uncharitable , however , as to believe , that they intended to ...
... feel and all we fear , was not the effect of ignorance , mistake , or what we call chance , but of design and scheme in those who had the sway at that time . I am not so uncharitable , however , as to believe , that they intended to ...
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254. oldal - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
77. oldal - 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...
257. oldal - 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.
246. oldal - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
256. oldal - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
241. oldal - 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.
173. oldal - 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.
141. oldal - 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.
256. oldal - 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.
96. oldal - 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.