Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and ViceMozley, 1808 |
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Σελίδα 17
... their children , by a natural and indispensible right ; and the more , as labouring for their instruction is serving the public . creature of God , both parents ought to combine their AFFECTION PARENTAL . 17 The late queen Caroline.
... their children , by a natural and indispensible right ; and the more , as labouring for their instruction is serving the public . creature of God , both parents ought to combine their AFFECTION PARENTAL . 17 The late queen Caroline.
Σελίδα 24
... served the remembrance of this affectionate conduct , and on his return to Rome , after the triumvirs had put a stop to the proscription , all the tribes unanimously concurred in raising him to the ædileship . But the goods of his ...
... served the remembrance of this affectionate conduct , and on his return to Rome , after the triumvirs had put a stop to the proscription , all the tribes unanimously concurred in raising him to the ædileship . But the goods of his ...
Σελίδα 43
... served only to exasperate and harden Tullia . " The furies , avengers of her sister and husband ( says Livy ) quite bereaved her at that instant of her reason : so that , forgetting not only the senti- ments of nature , but even of ...
... served only to exasperate and harden Tullia . " The furies , avengers of her sister and husband ( says Livy ) quite bereaved her at that instant of her reason : so that , forgetting not only the senti- ments of nature , but even of ...
Σελίδα 59
... served with gold and silver vessels in their churches . The clergy entertained this notion not only with readiness , but with applause ; sold all the consecrated vessels ; and having maintained the Persians during the war , sent the ...
... served with gold and silver vessels in their churches . The clergy entertained this notion not only with readiness , but with applause ; sold all the consecrated vessels ; and having maintained the Persians during the war , sent the ...
Σελίδα 60
... serves a recompense . Here , I have ordered you five kundred crowns ; what you can spare of it lay up as a dowry to give with your daughter in marriage . PISISTRATUS the Athenian was exceedingly courte- ous and affable ; 60 BENEFICENCE .
... serves a recompense . Here , I have ordered you five kundred crowns ; what you can spare of it lay up as a dowry to give with your daughter in marriage . PISISTRATUS the Athenian was exceedingly courte- ous and affable ; 60 BENEFICENCE .
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.