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... opinion of my own way of living . Plutarch just now told me , that ' tis in human life as in a game at tables , where a man may wish for the highest cast , but , if his chance be otherwise , he is e'en to play it as well as he can , and ...
... opinion of my own way of living . Plutarch just now told me , that ' tis in human life as in a game at tables , where a man may wish for the highest cast , but , if his chance be otherwise , he is e'en to play it as well as he can , and ...
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... opinion of any one under the notion of the former , let it be continued to me under no other title than that of the latter . And But if this publication be only a more solemn funeral of my remains , I desire it may be known that I die ...
... opinion of any one under the notion of the former , let it be continued to me under no other title than that of the latter . And But if this publication be only a more solemn funeral of my remains , I desire it may be known that I die ...
Pagina 12
... opinion on the part of the grey - hound , because ( said he ) it has all the good - nature of the other without the fawning . A good piece of satire upon his courtiers , with which I will conclude my discourse of dogs . Call me a cynic ...
... opinion on the part of the grey - hound , because ( said he ) it has all the good - nature of the other without the fawning . A good piece of satire upon his courtiers , with which I will conclude my discourse of dogs . Call me a cynic ...
Pagina 14
... opinion , that the philosopher and even the man of the world , may be born , as well as the poet . It must be owned that with all these great excellencies , he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better ...
... opinion , that the philosopher and even the man of the world , may be born , as well as the poet . It must be owned that with all these great excellencies , he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better ...
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... opinions influenced yours . I was not sorry to see you not determined on a single life , knowing it was not your father's intention , and contented myself with endeavouring to make your home so easy that you might not be in haste to ...
... opinions influenced yours . I was not sorry to see you not determined on a single life , knowing it was not your father's intention , and contented myself with endeavouring to make your home so easy that you might not be in haste to ...
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Pagina 192 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Pagina 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Pagina 454 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Pagina 188 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Pagina 196 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Pagina 76 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Pagina 195 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
Pagina 451 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Pagina 461 - ... with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Pagina 455 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.