The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, المجلد 2T. Boys, 1826 |
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... speeches , not one is now extant . That the world has lost something by their passing into oblivion , we may fairly conclude from the effects which some of them are recorded to have produced . In the war between his native city ...
... speeches , not one is now extant . That the world has lost something by their passing into oblivion , we may fairly conclude from the effects which some of them are recorded to have produced . In the war between his native city ...
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... speeches , that he might not , as he said , be proved to say in one cause , what might be contrary to what he should ad- vance in another . He was unfortunately killed during those bloody commotions which arose out of the contentions of ...
... speeches , that he might not , as he said , be proved to say in one cause , what might be contrary to what he should ad- vance in another . He was unfortunately killed during those bloody commotions which arose out of the contentions of ...
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... speech , which was published , he reproached the rioters for their want of taste and good sense , in making such a disturbance while Roscius was acting . This memo- rable instance of Cicero's command over men's pas- sions , is supposed ...
... speech , which was published , he reproached the rioters for their want of taste and good sense , in making such a disturbance while Roscius was acting . This memo- rable instance of Cicero's command over men's pas- sions , is supposed ...
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... speech in which Cicero fulminated his charges of injustice , rapine , and cruelty , against the guilty orator , that he felt all his powers of speech taken from him , and threw up the case of his client without saying a word in his ...
... speech in which Cicero fulminated his charges of injustice , rapine , and cruelty , against the guilty orator , that he felt all his powers of speech taken from him , and threw up the case of his client without saying a word in his ...
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... speech of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the House of Peers , in 1377 , the first year of the reign of Richard II . , who ascended the throne at the age of eleven years . The cause of the summons was declared by the archbishop in a speech ...
... speech of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the House of Peers , in 1377 , the first year of the reign of Richard II . , who ascended the throne at the age of eleven years . The cause of the summons was declared by the archbishop in a speech ...
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الصفحة 27 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king ! and of a king of England too...
الصفحة 41 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
الصفحة 40 - Cesar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third"—
الصفحة 123 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.
الصفحة 146 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
الصفحة 106 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
الصفحة 101 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
الصفحة 106 - It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take;...
الصفحة 27 - I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already...
الصفحة 27 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...