Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and ViceMozley, 1808 |
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... authorities are sufficient to justify the general plan of this work . As to the manner in which it is exe- cuted , the reader must judge . The compiler has en- deavoured to select the most striking and useful parts of history , and to ...
... authorities are sufficient to justify the general plan of this work . As to the manner in which it is exe- cuted , the reader must judge . The compiler has en- deavoured to select the most striking and useful parts of history , and to ...
الصفحة 17
... Authority , which is lost in almost every other house , was carefully preserved in the royal palace ; where it was rightly judg . ed , that affection and education without government and restraint , as planting without pruning and ...
... Authority , which is lost in almost every other house , was carefully preserved in the royal palace ; where it was rightly judg . ed , that affection and education without government and restraint , as planting without pruning and ...
الصفحة 18
... authority , and power , and each apart to employ those talents which are the peculiar excellency and ornament of their respective sex . The father ought to lay out and superintend their education ; the mother to execute and manage the ...
... authority , and power , and each apart to employ those talents which are the peculiar excellency and ornament of their respective sex . The father ought to lay out and superintend their education ; the mother to execute and manage the ...
الصفحة 36
... authority than was suit- able to a son only , was highly incensed against him : upon this , Titus his eldest son , pleaded with great af- fection and earnestness in favour of his brother , entreat- ing the emperor to beware of being ...
... authority than was suit- able to a son only , was highly incensed against him : upon this , Titus his eldest son , pleaded with great af- fection and earnestness in favour of his brother , entreat- ing the emperor to beware of being ...
الصفحة 44
... authority . The measures , however , which he employed to accom- plish his design were so ill concerted , that Manlius was cited before the dictator to answer for his conduct . He had the rashness to say , in the assemblies which he ...
... authority . The measures , however , which he employed to accom- plish his design were so ill concerted , that Manlius was cited before the dictator to answer for his conduct . He had the rashness to say , in the assemblies which he ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
admiration affection Agesistrata Alexander ambition Antigonus army Artabazanes Astyages beauty body brother Brutus Carthaginians Cassander Clitus command conduct consul courage court cried Croesus crown cruel cruelty Cyrus Damophilus Darius daughter death desired endeavoured enemy Epaminondas esteem example Falisci father favour force fortune friendship Gauls gave give glory gods Greece hands happy hath heart HIST honour human hundred husband Julius Cæsar king king's kingdom lady laws Leonidas liberty lives lord Lysimachus Macedon manner master ment mind mother nature never noble obliged occasion officers parents passion Persians person Phocion pleasure PLUT Plutarch Polybius present prince prisoners punishment queen regard Roman Rome says Scipio senate sent SENTIMENTS slaves soldiers Solon soon suffer Tarquinii tears tenderness ther thing thou thought thousand Thrasybulus throne tion took troops tyrant victory virtue whole wife word XENOPH Xerxes young youth
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الصفحة 183 - And it is pity that commonly more care is had, yea, and that amongst very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
الصفحة 14 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
الصفحة 56 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
الصفحة 188 - Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
الصفحة 240 - Pale, cold, and half speechless in the arms of his Damon, Pythias replied in broken accents, " Fatal haste ! — Cruel impatience! — What envious powers have wrought impossibilities in your favour? But I will not be wholly disappointed. Since I cannot die to save, I will not survive you.
الصفحة 227 - They were accompanied by three hundred and sixty five youths, agreeable to the number of days in a year, clothed in purple robes. Afterwards came a chariot consecrated to Jupiter/ drawn by white horses, and followed by a courser of a prodigious size, to whom they gave the name of the sun's horse ; and the equerries were dressed in white, each...
الصفحة 152 - ... assured the pope that all was transacted by the express will and command of the king, it was immediately decreed that the pope should march with his cardinals to the church of St. Mark, and in the most solemn manner give thanks to God for so great a blessing conferred on the See of Rome, and the Christian world...
الصفحة 275 - Then accosting the Spaniard, he said, " Christian, the person you have killed is my son : his body is now in my house. You ought to suffer ; but you have eaten with me, and I have given you my faith, which must not be broken.
الصفحة 273 - Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene: Some, rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again.
الصفحة 238 - This the tyrant intended peremptorily to refuse, by granting it, as he conceived, on the impossible conditions of his procuring some one to remain as hostage for his return, under equal forfeiture of life. Pythias heard the conditions, and did not wait for an application upon the part of Damon : he instantly offered himself as security for his friend; which being accepted, Damon was immediately set at liberty.