Characteristics of Eminent MenC. Griffin and Company, 1872 - 90 sidor |
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... never destroy or calamity alter , —hence the epithet Socratic . He bore injuries with patience ; and the insults of malice or resentment he not only treated with contempt , but even received with a mind that expressed some concern , and ...
... never destroy or calamity alter , —hence the epithet Socratic . He bore injuries with patience ; and the insults of malice or resentment he not only treated with contempt , but even received with a mind that expressed some concern , and ...
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... never see merit in one enduring pain as if it were pleasure , nor appreciate the heroism of a man who , without necessity , voluntarily habituated himself to poverty and the miseries that accompany privation of the benefits and ...
... never see merit in one enduring pain as if it were pleasure , nor appreciate the heroism of a man who , without necessity , voluntarily habituated himself to poverty and the miseries that accompany privation of the benefits and ...
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... never convertible terms . - Reader Journal . NIEBUHR , THE HISTORIAN . The proficiency of this illustrious philologist , scholar , and historian , has few parallels in literary history . When only twelve years of age , he astonished all ...
... never convertible terms . - Reader Journal . NIEBUHR , THE HISTORIAN . The proficiency of this illustrious philologist , scholar , and historian , has few parallels in literary history . When only twelve years of age , he astonished all ...
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... never rested in one spot . News did not travel fast in those days - but the emperor did . Long before the inhabitants of Syria and Egypt heard that he had left Rome on an expedition to Britain , he had rushed through Gaul , crossed the ...
... never rested in one spot . News did not travel fast in those days - but the emperor did . Long before the inhabitants of Syria and Egypt heard that he had left Rome on an expedition to Britain , he had rushed through Gaul , crossed the ...
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... never more exact . - White's Eighteen Christian Centuries . THE BONES OF DANTE . The following is , according to the authentic records found in the old archives of the Franciscans of Ravenna , the reason given for the removal of the ...
... never more exact . - White's Eighteen Christian Centuries . THE BONES OF DANTE . The following is , according to the authentic records found in the old archives of the Franciscans of Ravenna , the reason given for the removal of the ...
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Sida 5 - Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain side ; And, sometimes, intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard, — These were the lurking Satyrs, a wild brood Of gamesome Deities ; or Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God...
Sida 35 - As a companion no man ever exceeded him when he pleased to lead the conversation ; which, however, was not always the case. In company which he either disliked or despised, few could be more reserved than he ; but when he was warmed in discourse, and had got over a hesitating manner which sometimes he was subject to, it was rapture to hear him. His meagre visage seemed insensibly to gather beauty; every muscle in it had meaning, and his eye beamed with unusual brightness. The person who writes this...
Sida 86 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Sida 5 - Up towards the crescent moon, with grateful heart Called on the lovely wanderer who bestowed That timely light, to share his joyous sport : And hence, a beaming Goddess with her Nymphs, Across the lawn and through the darksome grove (Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes By echo multiplied from rock or cave) Swept in the storm of chase ; as moon and stars Glance rapidly along the clouded heaven, When winds are blowing strong.
Sida 73 - He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting ; he was more properly dull than lazy, and would have been so well contented to have remained in his little town of Hanover, that if the ambition of those about him had not been greater than his own, we should never have seen him in England...
Sida 66 - Such were Addison's talents for conversation. But his rare gifts were not exhibited to crowds or to strangers. As soon as he entered a large company, as soon as he saw an unknown face, his lips were sealed, and his manners became constrained.
Sida 24 - I would not give up the country and the lazy reading of old folios for two thousand times two thousand pounds ; in short, that beyond £250 a year I consider money as a real evil — at which he stared.
Sida 20 - His great pleasure consists in praising tyrants, abusing Plutarch, spelling oddly, and writing quaintly; and what is strange, after all his is the best modern history of Greece in any language, and he is perhaps the best of all modern historians whatsoever.
Sida 35 - Fontenelle continued his triumph until about twelve o'clock, when Voltaire appeared at last roused from his reverie. His whole frame seemed animated. He began his defence with the utmost defiance mixed with spirit, and now and ' then let fall the finest strokes of raillery upon his antagonist; and his harangue lasted till three in the morning.
Sida 61 - At the close of his letter, remembering that the prisoner, whose whole energy had been employed in the struggle for his life, had had but little time to set his affairs in order, he added a brief postscript, " If he must die, it were a charity to reprieve him until Saturday.