Fifty celebrated men: their lives and trials [&c.].David C. Cook, 1862 - 311 من الصفحات |
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... admired , more than any other European 66 acquirements , the arts of reading and writing . One day he desired a soldier who guarded him to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb . This he showed to several Spaniards , asking its ...
... admired , more than any other European 66 acquirements , the arts of reading and writing . One day he desired a soldier who guarded him to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb . This he showed to several Spaniards , asking its ...
الصفحة 16
... but there shone through them all a soundness of sense - candour - honesty , that cannot be too much admired . He has left a paper narrating his interview with the council ; and whatever we 16 MEN OF ENTERPRISE AND DARING .
... but there shone through them all a soundness of sense - candour - honesty , that cannot be too much admired . He has left a paper narrating his interview with the council ; and whatever we 16 MEN OF ENTERPRISE AND DARING .
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... admiration that in the dignity of his carriage which elevated him above all common men , even in the estima- tion of resident natives . Both in the exploration of the South Sea , and in his north - western voyages , Davis dis- played ...
... admiration that in the dignity of his carriage which elevated him above all common men , even in the estima- tion of resident natives . Both in the exploration of the South Sea , and in his north - western voyages , Davis dis- played ...
الصفحة 30
... admiration and compassion of the world . This was Dante Alighieri . This great poet came of a noble Florentine family , at a period when the Italian States were rent asunder by the conflicting interests of different princes , and when ...
... admiration and compassion of the world . This was Dante Alighieri . This great poet came of a noble Florentine family , at a period when the Italian States were rent asunder by the conflicting interests of different princes , and when ...
الصفحة 40
... admiration to the kindred intellects , who crowded from all quarters to see it , and the other interesting objects con- nected with Shakspeare . He died on his fifty - second birthday , 1616. A flagstone covers his grave in the chancel ...
... admiration to the kindred intellects , who crowded from all quarters to see it , and the other interesting objects con- nected with Shakspeare . He died on his fifty - second birthday , 1616. A flagstone covers his grave in the chancel ...
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admiration afterwards American appointed arms army attack attention Austria battle Bayard became began Blake Bonaparte born brave British Brougham brought called captain Castle Cervantes Charlemagne Charles church Columbus command Court crown death died discovery Don Quixote Duke Elector of Bavaria enemy English entered expedition eyes fame famous father favour fleet France French friends Galileo gallant gave genius Hampden hand heart hero honour Humphrey Gilbert illustrious Inca Italy James Watt John John Hampden John Howard John Pounds king labours land liberty lived London looked Lord military Milton mind Mozart Naples never night parliament Pizarro poet poor Portugal prince prison Queen Raleigh received returned to England Russia sailed Scotland seized sent Shakspeare ship soldier soon Spain Spaniards Spanish strong sword tion took triumph troops vessels victory voyage Wallace Wellington
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الصفحة 255 - A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
الصفحة 279 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and...
الصفحة 46 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
الصفحة 180 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 30 - I AM old and blind! Men point at me as smitten by God's frown; Afflicted and deserted of my kind, Yet I am not cast down. I am weak, yet strong; I murmur not that I no longer see; Poor, old, and helpless, I the more belong, Father Supreme! to thee.
الصفحة 288 - Society ; the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Glasgow in 1806; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the French Institute.
الصفحة 286 - ... with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank — all are as...
الصفحة 28 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
الصفحة ix - Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our Antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light.
الصفحة 149 - I know not by what despondency, or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it; so that there was nothing heard, or seen, but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange consternation there was upon them...