Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in ProseVicesimus Knox C. and J. Rivington, 1824 - 772 pagine |
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Pagina 12
... able to move out of one place into another , or to draw himself from any thing he has created , or from any part of that space which he diffused and spread abroad to infinity . In short , to speak of him in the language of the old ...
... able to move out of one place into another , or to draw himself from any thing he has created , or from any part of that space which he diffused and spread abroad to infinity . In short , to speak of him in the language of the old ...
Pagina 14
... able to disquiet the soul , and vex it in all its faculties . He can hinder any of the greatest comforts of life from re- freshing us , and give an edge to every one of its slightest calamities . Who then can bear the thought of being ...
... able to disquiet the soul , and vex it in all its faculties . He can hinder any of the greatest comforts of life from re- freshing us , and give an edge to every one of its slightest calamities . Who then can bear the thought of being ...
Pagina 21
... able to consume , our lives , though much contracted by incidental distraction , would yet afford us a large space vacant to the exercise of reason and virtue ; that we want not time , but diligence , for great performances ; and that ...
... able to consume , our lives , though much contracted by incidental distraction , would yet afford us a large space vacant to the exercise of reason and virtue ; that we want not time , but diligence , for great performances ; and that ...
Pagina 23
... able creature ought to maintain with the great Author of his being . The man who lives under an habitual sense of the divine presence , keeps up a perpetual cheerfulness of temper , and enjoys every moment the satisfaction of thinking ...
... able creature ought to maintain with the great Author of his being . The man who lives under an habitual sense of the divine presence , keeps up a perpetual cheerfulness of temper , and enjoys every moment the satisfaction of thinking ...
Pagina 40
... able circumstance in this part of instinct , we find that the love of the parent may be lengthened out beyond its usual time , if the preservation of the species requires it ; as we may see in birds that drive away their young as soon ...
... able circumstance in this part of instinct , we find that the love of the parent may be lengthened out beyond its usual time , if the preservation of the species requires it ; as we may see in birds that drive away their young as soon ...
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Brani popolari
Pagina 13 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Pagina 388 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Pagina 342 - ... let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Pagina 411 - German despot; your attempts will be for ever vain and impotent - — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms: Never, never, never...
Pagina 338 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without...
Pagina 2 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Pagina 159 - Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me, I was sick and ye visited me, I was in prison and ye came unto me.
Pagina 412 - I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Pagina 411 - I CANNOT, my Lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth. We must, if possible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelop it ; and display, in its full danger and genuine colors, the ruin which is brought to our doors.
Pagina 3 - ... falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. 'The islands...