Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and ViceMozley, 1808 |
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Σελίδα vii
... husband Cleombrutus The wife of Julius Sabinus The wife of Cavades , king of Persia .... The wife of Phocion , general of the Athenians The wife of Acilius the Roman The young prince of Armenia to the princess Pliny to Hispulla ...
... husband Cleombrutus The wife of Julius Sabinus The wife of Cavades , king of Persia .... The wife of Phocion , general of the Athenians The wife of Acilius the Roman The young prince of Armenia to the princess Pliny to Hispulla ...
Σελίδα ix
... husband and sister , then marries her brother - in - law , whom she instigates to murder her father , in order to obtain the crown of Rome M. Manlius thrown from the capitol which he had saved ..... The various fortunes of Marius the ...
... husband and sister , then marries her brother - in - law , whom she instigates to murder her father , in order to obtain the crown of Rome M. Manlius thrown from the capitol which he had saved ..... The various fortunes of Marius the ...
Σελίδα 2
L. M. Stretch. agreeable friend ; love and constancy , a good wife or husband . A married woman should not be desirous of attract- ing the eyes of any man but those of her husband . He that allows himself to taste those pleasures which ...
L. M. Stretch. agreeable friend ; love and constancy , a good wife or husband . A married woman should not be desirous of attract- ing the eyes of any man but those of her husband . He that allows himself to taste those pleasures which ...
Σελίδα 3
... husband I received from you in the flower of my youth on the point of perishing by your dagger ? Should he be unable to disarm your resent- ment , and move your soul to compassion by the tears of his wife and children , permit me to ...
... husband I received from you in the flower of my youth on the point of perishing by your dagger ? Should he be unable to disarm your resent- ment , and move your soul to compassion by the tears of his wife and children , permit me to ...
Σελίδα 4
... husband for whom she had the sincerest affection , re- solved not to out - live him , and began to abstain from all food . This news alarmed Sabinus ; and therefore , by means of Martialis , one of his freed - men , he informed her that ...
... husband for whom she had the sincerest affection , re- solved not to out - live him , and began to abstain from all food . This news alarmed Sabinus ; and therefore , by means of Martialis , one of his freed - men , he informed her that ...
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
admiration affection Agesistrata Alexander ambition Antigonus army Artabazanes Astyages beauty body brother Brutus Carthaginians Cassander Clitus command conduct consul courage court cried Croesus crown cruel cruelty Cyrus Damophilus Darius daughter death desired endeavoured enemy Epaminondas esteem example Falisci father favour force fortune friendship Gauls gave give glory gods Greece hands happy hath heart HIST honour human hundred husband Julius Cæsar king king's kingdom lady laws Leonidas liberty lives lord Lysimachus Macedon manner master ment mind mother nature never noble obliged occasion officers parents passion Persians person Phocion pleasure PLUT Plutarch Polybius present prince prisoners punishment queen regard Roman Rome says Scipio senate sent SENTIMENTS slaves soldiers Solon soon suffer Tarquinii tears tenderness ther thing thou thought thousand Thrasybulus throne tion took troops tyrant victory virtue whole wife word XENOPH Xerxes young youth
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Σελίδα 183 - And it is pity that commonly more care is had, yea, and that amongst very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
Σελίδα 14 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Σελίδα 56 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Σελίδα 188 - Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Σελίδα 240 - Pale, cold, and half speechless in the arms of his Damon, Pythias replied in broken accents, " Fatal haste ! — Cruel impatience! — What envious powers have wrought impossibilities in your favour? But I will not be wholly disappointed. Since I cannot die to save, I will not survive you.
Σελίδα 227 - They were accompanied by three hundred and sixty five youths, agreeable to the number of days in a year, clothed in purple robes. Afterwards came a chariot consecrated to Jupiter/ drawn by white horses, and followed by a courser of a prodigious size, to whom they gave the name of the sun's horse ; and the equerries were dressed in white, each...
Σελίδα 152 - ... assured the pope that all was transacted by the express will and command of the king, it was immediately decreed that the pope should march with his cardinals to the church of St. Mark, and in the most solemn manner give thanks to God for so great a blessing conferred on the See of Rome, and the Christian world...
Σελίδα 275 - Then accosting the Spaniard, he said, " Christian, the person you have killed is my son : his body is now in my house. You ought to suffer ; but you have eaten with me, and I have given you my faith, which must not be broken.
Σελίδα 273 - Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene: Some, rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again.
Σελίδα 238 - This the tyrant intended peremptorily to refuse, by granting it, as he conceived, on the impossible conditions of his procuring some one to remain as hostage for his return, under equal forfeiture of life. Pythias heard the conditions, and did not wait for an application upon the part of Damon : he instantly offered himself as security for his friend; which being accepted, Damon was immediately set at liberty.