The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Volym 2T. Boys, 1826 |
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... citizens of the former sent Gorgias and Tesias as ambassadors to the Athenians , to supplicate their assistance . On their arrival at Athens , about the year 427 , B. C. , Gorgias made such an artful address to the passions of the ...
... citizens of the former sent Gorgias and Tesias as ambassadors to the Athenians , to supplicate their assistance . On their arrival at Athens , about the year 427 , B. C. , Gorgias made such an artful address to the passions of the ...
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... citizens who had forced him to court and caress the multitude , in whom he found neither honour nor gratitude . Seeing Benedetto Alberti , an old party friend of his , at the head of the guards that surrounded the scaffold , he turned ...
... citizens who had forced him to court and caress the multitude , in whom he found neither honour nor gratitude . Seeing Benedetto Alberti , an old party friend of his , at the head of the guards that surrounded the scaffold , he turned ...
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... citizens of Rome , by men of great fortune and figure in their country , yet that army enslaved their country ; the affections of the soldiers towards their country , the honour and integrity of the under officers , are not to be ...
... citizens of Rome , by men of great fortune and figure in their country , yet that army enslaved their country ; the affections of the soldiers towards their country , the honour and integrity of the under officers , are not to be ...
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... citizen distinguished himself in par- liament by his integrity and his firmness . When Sir Robert Walpole , then prime minister , was one day whispering to the Speaker of the House of Commons , who leaned towards him over the arm of his ...
... citizen distinguished himself in par- liament by his integrity and his firmness . When Sir Robert Walpole , then prime minister , was one day whispering to the Speaker of the House of Commons , who leaned towards him over the arm of his ...
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... citizens , he began to reproach them in such glowing terms with their abject submission to such a tyrant , that all at once they were filled with an impulse of indignation not to be repressed , and stoned the tyrant Phalaris on the very ...
... citizens , he began to reproach them in such glowing terms with their abject submission to such a tyrant , that all at once they were filled with an impulse of indignation not to be repressed , and stoned the tyrant Phalaris on the very ...
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Sida 27 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king ! and of a king of England too...
Sida 41 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Sida 40 - Cesar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third"—
Sida 123 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.
Sida 146 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Sida 106 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
Sida 101 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Sida 106 - It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take;...
Sida 27 - I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already...
Sida 27 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...