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Pagina 10
... tion , I know not ; but we must be prepared for the worst . 3. Having been raised to power by the popular vote as a young man , it is not likely that he will free himself from evil associations in middle life . 4. He promised to go with ...
... tion , I know not ; but we must be prepared for the worst . 3. Having been raised to power by the popular vote as a young man , it is not likely that he will free himself from evil associations in middle life . 4. He promised to go with ...
Pagina 45
... tion of the vine among the nations of the earth . He did not confine himself to mere vine - planting , however , but proved a real benefactor of mankind by founding cities , and by introducing more civilised manners and a more pleasant ...
... tion of the vine among the nations of the earth . He did not confine himself to mere vine - planting , however , but proved a real benefactor of mankind by founding cities , and by introducing more civilised manners and a more pleasant ...
Pagina 91
... if you please , may be given a situa- tion advantageous for universal monarchy . In such a state there would be no such thing as faction : but men of the greatest capacity would of course all along have the chief PART IV . ] 91 EXERCISES .
... if you please , may be given a situa- tion advantageous for universal monarchy . In such a state there would be no such thing as faction : but men of the greatest capacity would of course all along have the chief PART IV . ] 91 EXERCISES .
Pagina 102
... tion , while they themselves are , every session , making greater innovations than that which they now call the most dreadful of all , namely , a reform in the representation in parliament . But it is the infatuation of the day that ...
... tion , while they themselves are , every session , making greater innovations than that which they now call the most dreadful of all , namely , a reform in the representation in parliament . But it is the infatuation of the day that ...
Pagina 104
... tion . I have learned from religion that an early death has often been the reward of piety ; and I accept , as a favour of the gods , the mortal stroke that secures me from the danger of disgracing a character which has hitherto been ...
... tion . I have learned from religion that an early death has often been the reward of piety ; and I accept , as a favour of the gods , the mortal stroke that secures me from the danger of disgracing a character which has hitherto been ...
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Brani popolari
Pagina 107 - Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another ; wave after wave ; and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Pagina 109 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in...
Pagina 77 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Pagina 111 - Let us consider you, then, as arrived at the summit of worldly greatness; let us suppose that all your plans of avarice and ambition are accomplished, and your most sanguine wishes gratified, in the fear as well as the hatred of the people; can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life? Can gray hairs make folly venerable?
Pagina 106 - The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men (boys almost) govern there without society, and without sympathy with the natives. They have no more social habits with the people, than if they still resided in England, nor indeed any species of intercourse but that which is necessary to making a sudden fortune with a view to a remote settlement...
Pagina 79 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Pagina 107 - You ascended the throne with a declared, and, I doubt not, a sincere resolution of giving universal satisfaction to your subjects. You found them pleased with the novelty of a young prince, whose countenance promised even more than his words ; and loyal to you, not only from principle, but passion.
Pagina 89 - This was the practice of the Grecian stage. But Terence made an innovation in the Roman; all his plays have double actions, for it was his custom to translate two Greek comedies and to weave them...
Pagina 100 - It is noble to be capable of resigning entirely one's own portion of happiness, or chances of it; but, after all, this self-sacrifice must be for some end; it is not its own end, and if we are told that its end is not happiness...
Pagina 65 - The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave...