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... characters of Craffus , Alexander , and Pompey . 2 Whatever Plutarch's motive , may have been , fay they , it is certain that he has given us a very .. inadequate and .. imperfect idea of the character of Cæfar . The life he has written ...
... characters of Craffus , Alexander , and Pompey . 2 Whatever Plutarch's motive , may have been , fay they , it is certain that he has given us a very .. inadequate and .. imperfect idea of the character of Cæfar . The life he has written ...
الصفحة 7
... characters of men . But Alexander feems to be an exception : for nothing can admit of greater diffimilarity than that ... character underwent a total revolution , " and he paffed from virtue to vice in a regular and progreffive manner ...
... characters of men . But Alexander feems to be an exception : for nothing can admit of greater diffimilarity than that ... character underwent a total revolution , " and he paffed from virtue to vice in a regular and progreffive manner ...
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... character than any of his hiftorians have thought proper to afford him . One circumftance , indeed , renders the accounts that the writers , who rofe after the established monarchy , have given of his oppofition , perfectly ...
... character than any of his hiftorians have thought proper to afford him . One circumftance , indeed , renders the accounts that the writers , who rofe after the established monarchy , have given of his oppofition , perfectly ...
الصفحة 9
... character , than the reproaches of a declared ene- my . His behaviour at the fiege of Mutina , in the wars against S. Pompey , in those against the Dalmatians , and in the whole of his conteft with Antony , difcovers nothing of timidity ...
... character , than the reproaches of a declared ene- my . His behaviour at the fiege of Mutina , in the wars against S. Pompey , in those against the Dalmatians , and in the whole of his conteft with Antony , difcovers nothing of timidity ...
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... character of a philofo- pher , without laughter , were not the principles he advances fo fhocking to the human mind , and fo contradictory to found philofophy , as to excite a more serious difpofition . - It is with regret we confider ...
... character of a philofo- pher , without laughter , were not the principles he advances fo fhocking to the human mind , and fo contradictory to found philofophy , as to excite a more serious difpofition . - It is with regret we confider ...
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الصفحة 294 - And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
الصفحة 374 - It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the Hercules.
الصفحة 268 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
الصفحة 190 - ... policy. Sad experience and a large mind taught that great man, the President De Thou, this doctrine. Let any man read the many admirable things which, though a Papist, he hath...
الصفحة 265 - Supremely blest, if to their portion fall Health, competence, and peace. Nor higher aim Had he whose simple tale these artless lines proclaim.
الصفحة 329 - Of style and sentiment they take no cognizance. They admire him for virtues like their own, for contempt of order and violence of outrage, for rage of defamation and audacity of falsehood.
الصفحة 313 - From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
الصفحة 372 - Phidias (the favourite artist of antiquity), to illustrate their assertions. As if they could not sufficiently express their admiration of his genius by what they knew, they have recourse to poetical enthusiasm. They call it inspiration ; a gift from heaven. The...
الصفحة 338 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
الصفحة 265 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...