New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... greatest enemies : yet he was deposed from the throne , and murdered in a prison . Of this difference between the lot of the father and the son , the solution must be sought in the manners and character of the age . They both reigned ...
... greatest enemies : yet he was deposed from the throne , and murdered in a prison . Of this difference between the lot of the father and the son , the solution must be sought in the manners and character of the age . They both reigned ...
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... greatest abilities ; as Lewis XI . was . But on the contrary , made use of the most eminent of his time otherwise his affairs could not have prospered as they did . Neither did he care how crafty and subtile they were , for he thought ...
... greatest abilities ; as Lewis XI . was . But on the contrary , made use of the most eminent of his time otherwise his affairs could not have prospered as they did . Neither did he care how crafty and subtile they were , for he thought ...
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... greatest of our princes . They have borne honourable testimony to her virtues ; have allotted to her the praise of piety and clemency , of compassion to the poor , and liberality to the distressed ; and have recorded her solicitude to ...
... greatest of our princes . They have borne honourable testimony to her virtues ; have allotted to her the praise of piety and clemency , of compassion to the poor , and liberality to the distressed ; and have recorded her solicitude to ...
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... greatest obli- gation and concern to please her ; whilst she always remained mistress of herself . She was indeed childless , and left no issue behind her ; which has been the case of many fortunate princes ; as of Alexander the Great ...
... greatest obli- gation and concern to please her ; whilst she always remained mistress of herself . She was indeed childless , and left no issue behind her ; which has been the case of many fortunate princes ; as of Alexander the Great ...
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... greatest proof of her constancy in religion and religious worship is , that notwithstanding popery , which in her sister's reign had been strenuously established by public authority , and the utmost diligence , began now to take deep ...
... greatest proof of her constancy in religion and religious worship is , that notwithstanding popery , which in her sister's reign had been strenuously established by public authority , and the utmost diligence , began now to take deep ...
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الصفحة 285 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
الصفحة 277 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, That the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
الصفحة 216 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested.
الصفحة 171 - ... of a personal courage equal to his best parts; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend; and as much to be apprehended where he was so as any man could deserve to be.
الصفحة 275 - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
الصفحة 103 - He was not a man of blood, and totally declined Machiavel's method, which prescribes, upon any alteration of government, as a thing absolutely necessary, to cut off all the heads of those, and extirpate their families, who are friends to the old one. It was confidently reported that, in the council of officers, it was more than once proposed, " that there might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as " the only expedient to secure the government " : but that Cromwell would never consent...
الصفحة 200 - During the session, the first in, and the last out of the house of commons ; he passes from the senate to the camp ; and seldom seeing the seat of his ancestors, he is always in the senate to serve his country, or in the field to defend it.
الصفحة 169 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them...
الصفحة 338 - Mahomet must have been gradually stained: and the influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues which are necessary to maintain the reputation of a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion; and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled (the victorious impostor!) at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes.
الصفحة 96 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.