Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, 4. kötet1812 |
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18. oldal
... these men being elevated above humanity , ac- quire an uniform character , which is entirely their own , and which is in my opinion , generally speak- ing , not the most amiable that is to be 18 BOOK VII . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... these men being elevated above humanity , ac- quire an uniform character , which is entirely their own , and which is in my opinion , generally speak- ing , not the most amiable that is to be 18 BOOK VII . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
21. oldal
... opinion , where he says , On ne sauroit pas dire assez de bien de l'honnêtetè de ces mœurs , ni assez de mal de ses opinion sur la religion . His general maxim , That happiness consisted in plea- sure , was too much unguarded , and must ...
... opinion , where he says , On ne sauroit pas dire assez de bien de l'honnêtetè de ces mœurs , ni assez de mal de ses opinion sur la religion . His general maxim , That happiness consisted in plea- sure , was too much unguarded , and must ...
28. oldal
... opinion of his cause , yet detested the inhu- manity of his victory , and never speaks of him with respect , nor of his government but as a proper tyranny ; calling him , a master of three most pestilent vices , luxury , avarice ...
... opinion of his cause , yet detested the inhu- manity of his victory , and never speaks of him with respect , nor of his government but as a proper tyranny ; calling him , a master of three most pestilent vices , luxury , avarice ...
64. oldal
... censure , nor the exaggerated praise of his contemporaries , which ought to regulate the opinions of the present age concerning him . Zeal for what he regarded as truth 64 BOOK VII . ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Character of Martin Luther.
... censure , nor the exaggerated praise of his contemporaries , which ought to regulate the opinions of the present age concerning him . Zeal for what he regarded as truth 64 BOOK VII . ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Character of Martin Luther.
66. oldal
... opinions were well founded , approached to arrogance ; his courage in asserting them , to rashness ; his firmness in ad- hering to them , to obstinacy ; and his zeal in con- futing his adversaries , to rage and scurrility . Ac- customed ...
... opinions were well founded , approached to arrogance ; his courage in asserting them , to rashness ; his firmness in ad- hering to them , to obstinacy ; and his zeal in con- futing his adversaries , to rage and scurrility . Ac- customed ...
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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.