Famous Men of Ancient TimesBrown & Taggard, 1860 - 310 σελίδες |
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 269 - ... when we apply ourselves to it only for o.ur improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.
Σελίδα 19 - ... any one been despoiled of his goods ? the little that I possess shall compensate the principal and the interest of the debt." " Yes," replied a voice from the crowd ; " I am entitled to three drachms of silver.
Σελίδα 19 - Mussulman ? let him proclaim my faults in the face of the congregation. Has any one been despoiled of his goods? the little that I possess shall compensate the principal and the interest of the debt.
Σελίδα 216 - Because it was as far from my tub to your palace, as from your palace to my tub.
Σελίδα 290 - Hands dyed so deep with slaughter of my sons. So saying, he waken'd in his soul regret Of his own sire ; softly he plac'd his hand On Priam's hand, and push'd him gently away. Remembrance melted both. Stretch'd prone before Achilles...
Σελίδα 16 - Mohammed the apostle of GOD, to Moseilama the liar. The earth is GOD'S: he giveth the same for inheritance unto such of his servants as he pleaseth ; and the happy issue shall attend those who fear him'.
Σελίδα 116 - Octavius came, peculiarly formed by nature and instructed by art, to quicken their operation, and exalt them to their maturity. Cicero's administration was now at an end, and nothing remained but to resign the consulship, according to custom, in an assembly of the people, and to take the usual oath, of his having discharged it with fidelity. This was generally accompanied with a speech from the expiring consul ; and after such a year, and from such a speaker, the city was in no small expectation...
Σελίδα 164 - ... made him stumble, and he fell. Alexander, taking an insolent advantage of this circumstance, said, " Men of Macedon, see there the man who was preparing to pass from Europe into Asia ! He is not able to pass from one table to another without falling.
Σελίδα 108 - Such artifices, which appear degrading in our day, were by no means beneath the practice of one so elevated in his sense of propriety as Cicero. Having reached his thirty-seventh year, and being therefore eligible to the office of edile, he offered himself as a candidate, and was elected by the people. Before he entered upon its duties, however, he undertook the prosecution of C. Verres, the late praetor of Sicily, charged with many flagrant acts of injustice, rapine and cruelty, during his triennial...
Σελίδα 140 - Pollio; enumerating the calamities which the passage of that river would bring upon the world, and the reflections that might be made upon it by posterity. At last, upon some sudden impulse, bidding adieu to his reasonings, and plunging into the abyss of futurity, in the words of those who embark in doubtful and arduous enterprises, he cried out, — "The die is cast!