Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volym 41812 |
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... Cæsar ... Character of Alfred , King of England . Harris . Robertson . ..Robertson . 7 9 12 .... Robertson . 14 ... Hume . 16 Leland . 19 Lord Orrery . 201 From Livy . 21 Middleton . 24 Middleton . 26 Middleton . 28 Middleton . 32 ...
... Cæsar ... Character of Alfred , King of England . Harris . Robertson . ..Robertson . 7 9 12 .... Robertson . 14 ... Hume . 16 Leland . 19 Lord Orrery . 201 From Livy . 21 Middleton . 24 Middleton . 26 Middleton . 28 Middleton . 32 ...
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... Cæsar ; and while Cæsar , immersed in pleasures , oppressed with debts , and suspected by all honest men , 28 ELEGANT EXTRACTS . BOOK VII . Character of Pompey Middleton.
... Cæsar ; and while Cæsar , immersed in pleasures , oppressed with debts , and suspected by all honest men , 28 ELEGANT EXTRACTS . BOOK VII . Character of Pompey Middleton.
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... Cæsar made no difference of power , whether it was conferred or usurped , whether over those who loved , or those who feared him ; Pompey seemed to value none but what was offered ; nor to have any de- sire to govern , but with the good ...
... Cæsar made no difference of power , whether it was conferred or usurped , whether over those who loved , or those who feared him ; Pompey seemed to value none but what was offered ; nor to have any de- sire to govern , but with the good ...
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... Cæsar , which proved fatal both to himself and the republic . He took in these two , not as the partners , but the ministers rather of his power ; that by giving them some share with him , he might make his own authority uncontrollable ...
... Cæsar , which proved fatal both to himself and the republic . He took in these two , not as the partners , but the ministers rather of his power ; that by giving them some share with him , he might make his own authority uncontrollable ...
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... man the ascendant in society : formed to excel in peace , as well as war ; provident in council : VOL . IV . F fearless in action ; and executing what he had re- BOOK VII . 33 HISTORICAL . Character of Julius Cæsar Middleton.
... man the ascendant in society : formed to excel in peace , as well as war ; provident in council : VOL . IV . F fearless in action ; and executing what he had re- BOOK VII . 33 HISTORICAL . Character of Julius Cæsar Middleton.
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Sida 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Sida 77 - 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...
Sida 257 - 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.
Sida 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Sida 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Sida 241 - 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.
Sida 173 - 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.
Sida 141 - 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.
Sida 256 - 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.
Sida 96 - 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.