Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and ViceMozley, 1808 |
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الصفحة 8
... respect for my mo- ther , you was pleased , from my infancy , to form me , to commend me , and kindly to presage that I should be one day what my wife fancies I am accept , therefore , our united thanks ; mine , that you have bestowed ...
... respect for my mo- ther , you was pleased , from my infancy , to form me , to commend me , and kindly to presage that I should be one day what my wife fancies I am accept , therefore , our united thanks ; mine , that you have bestowed ...
الصفحة 9
... respects as great a man as Pliny , and hath written a whole book of letters to his wife . They are full of that beautiful simplicity which is alto- gether natural , and is the distinguished character of the best ancient writers . The ...
... respects as great a man as Pliny , and hath written a whole book of letters to his wife . They are full of that beautiful simplicity which is alto- gether natural , and is the distinguished character of the best ancient writers . The ...
الصفحة 16
... respect to expenses of honour and duty ; in consequence of which , he spared nothing to procure them an education worthy of their birth . Gram- marians , rhetoricians , philosophers , sculptors , painters , masters expert in breaking ...
... respect to expenses of honour and duty ; in consequence of which , he spared nothing to procure them an education worthy of their birth . Gram- marians , rhetoricians , philosophers , sculptors , painters , masters expert in breaking ...
الصفحة 17
... respects their natural life ; and this comprehends protection , nurture , provi- sion , introducing them into the world in a manner suit- able to their rank and fortune , and the like . The se cond order of duties regards the ...
... respects their natural life ; and this comprehends protection , nurture , provi- sion , introducing them into the world in a manner suit- able to their rank and fortune , and the like . The se cond order of duties regards the ...
الصفحة 23
... respect of others by the beauty of so commendable and generous an action . As soon as they got out of Rome , the son , sometimes as- sisting his father to walk , and sometimes carrying him , * VIRG . Eneid , 1. 2. 707 . when the fatigue ...
... respect of others by the beauty of so commendable and generous an action . As soon as they got out of Rome , the son , sometimes as- sisting his father to walk , and sometimes carrying him , * VIRG . Eneid , 1. 2. 707 . when the fatigue ...
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.