Ethica; Or, Characteristics of Men, Manners & BooksSmith, 1860 - 404 страници |
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... seems to have been a man of more than ordinarily eccentric proportions . Early in life he had taken part in those fierce campaigns in which the hordes of the North , headed by leaders more skilful and more unscrupulous than Alboin or ...
... seems to have been a man of more than ordinarily eccentric proportions . Early in life he had taken part in those fierce campaigns in which the hordes of the North , headed by leaders more skilful and more unscrupulous than Alboin or ...
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... seems to have been present at that terrible siege , for which his son could find but a single parallel in the gloomy annals of war , when the citizens of Milan , driven to madness between the insults of Del Guasto and the perfidy of ...
... seems to have been present at that terrible siege , for which his son could find but a single parallel in the gloomy annals of war , when the citizens of Milan , driven to madness between the insults of Del Guasto and the perfidy of ...
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... seem to have produced the usual fruit . Years after , the essayist declared that he could not hear the rattle of an arquebus without starting , or see a chicken's neck pulled off without trouble , or endure the cry of a hare in his ...
... seem to have produced the usual fruit . Years after , the essayist declared that he could not hear the rattle of an arquebus without starting , or see a chicken's neck pulled off without trouble , or endure the cry of a hare in his ...
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... seems to have possessed very little of the materials for making a student . His wit , he complains , was slothful , going no faster than it was led ; his understanding slow , his inven- tion languishing . The least cloud arrested his ...
... seems to have possessed very little of the materials for making a student . His wit , he complains , was slothful , going no faster than it was led ; his understanding slow , his inven- tion languishing . The least cloud arrested his ...
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... seem able even to conceive that there can be anything so excellent and refined as friendship in marriage , " his own assertion , in his own words , that " a good marriage refuses the company and condition of love , and endeavours to ...
... seem able even to conceive that there can be anything so excellent and refined as friendship in marriage , " his own assertion , in his own words , that " a good marriage refuses the company and condition of love , and endeavours to ...
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Страница 372 - His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power, The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
Страница 98 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Страница 371 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Страница 98 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Страница 391 - Nay, I will say more — flattered and encouraged by the Right Honourable Gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in the Alchemist.
Страница 157 - Till at the last, his time for fury found, He shoots with sudden vengeance from the ground ; The prostrate vulgar passes o'er and spares, But with a lordly rage his hunters tears.
Страница 274 - Dubius is such a scrupulous good man ! Yes, you may catch him tripping if you can. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own ; With hesitation admirably slow He humbly hopes, presumes, it may be so.
Страница 98 - I am sometimes ashamed to think that I could not secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion, into solitude.
Страница 384 - A breach has been made in the constitution — the battlements are dismantled — the citadel is open to the first invader — the walls totter — the constitution is not tenable. What remains then, but for us to stand foremost in the breach, to repair it, or perish in it...
Страница 96 - ... we do injuriously in thinking to taste better the pure evangelic manna, by seasoning our mouths with the tainted scraps and fragments of an unknown table ; and searching among the verminous and polluted rags dropped overworn from the toiling shoulders of time, with these deformedly to quilt and interlace the entire, the spotless, and undecaying robe of truth, the daughter not of time, but of Heaven, only bred up here below in Christian hearts, between two grave and holy nurses, the doctrine and...