Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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الصفحة xxxiv
... biography , in which the character of the biographer appears chiefly to give unity to the representation of facts and the application of principles . The amount of knowledge each of them xxxiv BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY.
... biography , in which the character of the biographer appears chiefly to give unity to the representation of facts and the application of principles . The amount of knowledge each of them xxxiv BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY.
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... Give up such a lovely woman to that drunken boy ! My character would be gone for ever . No more perfumed tablets , full of vows and raptures ? No more toying with fingers at the Circus . No more evening walks along the Tiber . No more ...
... Give up such a lovely woman to that drunken boy ! My character would be gone for ever . No more perfumed tablets , full of vows and raptures ? No more toying with fingers at the Circus . No more evening walks along the Tiber . No more ...
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... give ten she - asses , and ten slaves , and ten changes of rai- ment , every year , unto the man who shall make ten measures of the best wine . And whosoever wishes for the she - asses , and the slaves , and the raiment , let him send ...
... give ten she - asses , and ten slaves , and ten changes of rai- ment , every year , unto the man who shall make ten measures of the best wine . And whosoever wishes for the she - asses , and the slaves , and the raiment , let him send ...
الصفحة 27
... give command to thy men of war , and let them smite the disobedient people with the sword , them , and their wives , and their children , and let their houses , and their flocks , and their herds , be given to thy servants the priests ...
... give command to thy men of war , and let them smite the disobedient people with the sword , them , and their wives , and their children , and let their houses , and their flocks , and their herds , be given to thy servants the priests ...
الصفحة 34
... give its last bang against the mortar , when the cold dose is ready . Pah ! SPEUSIPPUS . Hemlock ! Orestes ! folly ! -I aim at nobler objects . What say you to politics , the general assembly ? - CALLIDEMUS . You an orator ! · oh no ...
... give its last bang against the mortar , when the cold dose is ready . Pah ! SPEUSIPPUS . Hemlock ! Orestes ! folly ! -I aim at nobler objects . What say you to politics , the general assembly ? - CALLIDEMUS . You an orator ! · oh no ...
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الصفحة 430 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
الصفحة 390 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
الصفحة 267 - There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
الصفحة 322 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
الصفحة 332 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
الصفحة 324 - We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.
الصفحة 256 - He had been rescued by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
الصفحة 413 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure...
الصفحة 266 - Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee? Faithful. May I speak a few words in my own defence? Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
الصفحة 251 - Then came those days, never to be recalled without a blush, the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.