The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language, Том 1Thomas Browne (LL.D.) Birch and Small, 1810 |
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... least interrupted in their continuance , of any that are recorded in ancient history . It is therefore from the destruction of Carthage , and from the consequent security and independence of Rome , that we must date the first grand ...
... least interrupted in their continuance , of any that are recorded in ancient history . It is therefore from the destruction of Carthage , and from the consequent security and independence of Rome , that we must date the first grand ...
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... least dread of inferiority , to any of those so highly extolled by the Roman panegyrist . Let us select two of them , SOMERS and BOLINGBROKE , men of opposite parties , opposite principies , opposite character - but , alike admired for ...
... least dread of inferiority , to any of those so highly extolled by the Roman panegyrist . Let us select two of them , SOMERS and BOLINGBROKE , men of opposite parties , opposite principies , opposite character - but , alike admired for ...
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... least correction either as to method or style . If his conduct , in the former part of his life , had been equal to all his natural and acquired talents , he would most justly have merited the epithet of all - accomplished . He is ...
... least correction either as to method or style . If his conduct , in the former part of his life , had been equal to all his natural and acquired talents , he would most justly have merited the epithet of all - accomplished . He is ...
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... least . " Notwithstanding the dissipation of his youth , and the tumultuous agitation of his middle age , he has an infinite fund of various and almost universal knowledge , which from the clearest and quickest conception , and happiest ...
... least . " Notwithstanding the dissipation of his youth , and the tumultuous agitation of his middle age , he has an infinite fund of various and almost universal knowledge , which from the clearest and quickest conception , and happiest ...
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... least you hoped he would not take it ill that you asked it . Then you should tell him what it was that you wanted ; that it was a holyday ; for which you should give your reasons , as that you had such or such a thing to do , or such a ...
... least you hoped he would not take it ill that you asked it . Then you should tell him what it was that you wanted ; that it was a holyday ; for which you should give your reasons , as that you had such or such a thing to do , or such a ...
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Страница 72 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Страница 108 - But, his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Страница 53 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Страница 205 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Страница 54 - Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Страница 130 - ... to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Страница 53 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Страница 130 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Страница 109 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest — that of the whole : where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Страница 206 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.