Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and ViceMozley, 1808 |
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الصفحة iii
... say ; and the pleasure it will afford must be equal to its utility . It is keeping the best company , and viewing human nature in the most amiable light . The entertainment it affords , not only springs from generous sentiments , but ...
... say ; and the pleasure it will afford must be equal to its utility . It is keeping the best company , and viewing human nature in the most amiable light . The entertainment it affords , not only springs from generous sentiments , but ...
الصفحة iv
... says an ingenious writer , by per- using dull , formal lectures on the several virtues and vices , and declaiming loosely on their effect ; but by exhibiting to the moral eye living examples , or , what is nearest to those pictures ...
... says an ingenious writer , by per- using dull , formal lectures on the several virtues and vices , and declaiming loosely on their effect ; but by exhibiting to the moral eye living examples , or , what is nearest to those pictures ...
الصفحة v
... say , as though he were laying traps to ensnare them . " We must therefore give them masters who can lie under no ... says , " History is philosophy teaching by example ; " and Montaigne , at the conclu- sion of his chapter on three ...
... say , as though he were laying traps to ensnare them . " We must therefore give them masters who can lie under no ... says , " History is philosophy teaching by example ; " and Montaigne , at the conclu- sion of his chapter on three ...
الصفحة 3
... says Plu- tarch , was not entirely depraved by vain - glory , and a boundless ambition to reign , he would have been sensi- ble that even banishment itself , with so virtuous a com- panion , was a felicity preferable to the condition of ...
... says Plu- tarch , was not entirely depraved by vain - glory , and a boundless ambition to reign , he would have been sensi- ble that even banishment itself , with so virtuous a com- panion , was a felicity preferable to the condition of ...
الصفحة 11
... say with the poet , They know a passion still more deeply charming Than fever'd youth e'er felt ; and that is love , By long experience mellow'd into friendship . THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD HUSBAND . THE good husband is one , who , wedded ...
... say with the poet , They know a passion still more deeply charming Than fever'd youth e'er felt ; and that is love , By long experience mellow'd into friendship . THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD HUSBAND . THE good husband is one , who , wedded ...
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.