Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present Day, with IndexesJ.B. Lippincott, 1879 - 555 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 14
... matter to dis- charge , to the general satisfaction , the duty of a supreme commander in troublesome times . I am , I hope , duly sensible of the im- portance of the office I propose to take upon ine for the service of my country . To ...
... matter to dis- charge , to the general satisfaction , the duty of a supreme commander in troublesome times . I am , I hope , duly sensible of the im- portance of the office I propose to take upon ine for the service of my country . To ...
Σελίδα 15
... matter of more praise to disgrace one's illus- trious ancestors than to become illustrious by one's own behaviour ? What if I can show no statues of my family ? I can show the standards , the armour , and the trap- pings which I have ...
... matter of more praise to disgrace one's illus- trious ancestors than to become illustrious by one's own behaviour ? What if I can show no statues of my family ? I can show the standards , the armour , and the trap- pings which I have ...
Σελίδα 16
... matter of very pleasing congratulation to yourself , if you shall find in some things that you have the advantage of him , as it will be a great mortification if he should rise above you in all . You may sometimes venture in these ...
... matter of very pleasing congratulation to yourself , if you shall find in some things that you have the advantage of him , as it will be a great mortification if he should rise above you in all . You may sometimes venture in these ...
Σελίδα 18
... matter with sincerity , and we shall agree that our distresses chiefly arise from ourselves . It is virtue alone which can render us superior to Fortune ; we quit her standard , and the combat is no longer equal . Fortune mocks us ; she ...
... matter with sincerity , and we shall agree that our distresses chiefly arise from ourselves . It is virtue alone which can render us superior to Fortune ; we quit her standard , and the combat is no longer equal . Fortune mocks us ; she ...
Σελίδα 24
... matter would be accomplished , begged his forgiveness . More kissed him . Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive , ' he said . Pluck up thy spirit , man , and be not afraid to do thine office . My neck is very short ...
... matter would be accomplished , begged his forgiveness . More kissed him . Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive , ' he said . Pluck up thy spirit , man , and be not afraid to do thine office . My neck is very short ...
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Σελίδα 49 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
Σελίδα 364 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Σελίδα 63 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases ; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not...
Σελίδα 476 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Σελίδα 64 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Σελίδα 177 - We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Σελίδα 63 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Σελίδα 29 - ... 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...
Σελίδα 443 - 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.
Σελίδα 64 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.