Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George BuchananBell and Bradfute, 1807 - 318 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... writing , that he who compares them , will be often tempt- ed to prefer the copy to the original , ) that he is justly reckoned the greatest and best of our modern authors . " Cowley , speaking of the writers who have executed poetical ...
... writing , that he who compares them , will be often tempt- ed to prefer the copy to the original , ) that he is justly reckoned the greatest and best of our modern authors . " Cowley , speaking of the writers who have executed poetical ...
الصفحة ix
... written the history of his own country in Latin , and in such Latin , that I am not afraid to compare his stile with that of any Roman historian . He lived in an age when the Latin language was very much cultivated ; and among the ...
... written the history of his own country in Latin , and in such Latin , that I am not afraid to compare his stile with that of any Roman historian . He lived in an age when the Latin language was very much cultivated ; and among the ...
الصفحة xiii
... many learnid , and compaignons of his lyfe , and that hath so wel deseruid of the worlde , I maruaille that no man hath written of it ; beinge a thinge so common vnto all famous per- sonnes , and most peculiar to the best learn- id xiii.
... many learnid , and compaignons of his lyfe , and that hath so wel deseruid of the worlde , I maruaille that no man hath written of it ; beinge a thinge so common vnto all famous per- sonnes , and most peculiar to the best learn- id xiii.
الصفحة xvii
... writing his life was successively re- commended , by the earl of Buchan , to Dr. Stuart and to Dr. Dunbar : and either of those able men could have invested the sub- ject with charms , which the reader will in vain expect to discover in ...
... writing his life was successively re- commended , by the earl of Buchan , to Dr. Stuart and to Dr. Dunbar : and either of those able men could have invested the sub- ject with charms , which the reader will in vain expect to discover in ...
الصفحة 8
... written at an advanced age , he often describes feats of chival- ry with great animation . But his experience in the course of this inglorious campaign , did not render him more enamoured of a military life : the hardships which he had ...
... written at an advanced age , he often describes feats of chival- ry with great animation . But his experience in the course of this inglorious campaign , did not render him more enamoured of a military life : the hardships which he had ...
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الصفحة 257 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
الصفحة xi - Buchanan ; and he, too, seems to have been the first scholar who caught from the ancients the noble flame of republican enthusiasm. This praise is merited by his neglected though incomparable tract, ' De Jure Regni,' in which the principles of popular politics, and the maxims of a free government, are delivered with a precision, and enforced with an energy, which no former age had equalled, and no succeeding has surpassed.
الصفحة 293 - Latin poesy,' says this mild contemporary, 'much honoured in other countries, pleasant in conversation, rehearsing at all occasions moralities short and instructive, whereof he had abundance, inventing where he wanted. He was also religious, but was easily abused, and so facile, that he was led by every company that he haunted, which made him factious in his old days, for he spoke and wrote as those who were about him informed him; for he was become careless, following in many things the vulgar opinion;...
الصفحة 235 - ... if there be found in his book one sentence of a venturous edge, uttered in the height of zeal, and who knows whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit, yet not suiting with every low decrepit humor of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer of a kingdom...
الصفحة 161 - ANE DETECTIOUN OF THE DUINGES OF MARIE QUENE OF SCOTTES, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erie Bothwell, And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latine quhilke was written by GB With oval portrait of Mary Queen of Scots by G.
الصفحة 170 - ... the cat. His venerable preceptor, who might have pardoned the remark, was perhaps offended with the mode in which it was uttered : he threw aside his book with indignation, and bestowed upon the delinquent that species of scholastic discipline which is deemed most ignominious. The Countess of Mar, being attracted by the wailing which ensued, hastened to the scene of his disgrace ; and, taking the precious deposit in her arms, she demanded of Buchanan, how he presumed to lay his hand on the Lord's...
الصفحة 308 - Turnebus, who was associated with him in the same college, and whose decisions will not be rashly controverted, has characterized him as a man of consummate erudition. Most of the ancient writers had limited their aspiring hopes to one department of literature; and even to excel in one demands the happy perseverance of a cultivated genius.
الصفحة 235 - Yet if these things be not resented seriously and timely by them who have the remedy in their power, but that such...
الصفحة 246 - Although the bounty of nature and the instruction of your governors may at present secure you against this error, yet am I compelled to entertain some slight degree of suspicion, lest evil communication — the alluring nurse of the vices — should lend an unhappy impulse to your still tender mind, especially as I am not ignorant with what facility the external
الصفحة 168 - My Lady Mar was wise and sharp, and held the king in great awe, and so did Mr. George Buchanan. Mr. Peter Young was more gentle, and was...