Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present Day, with IndexesJ.B. Lippincott, 1879 - 555 pages |
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... opinion , can be no impertinent topics on this occasion ; the dis- cussion of them must be beneficial to this numerous company of Athenians and of strangers . The ship like men ; but we , notwithstanding our easy and elegant way of life ...
... opinion , can be no impertinent topics on this occasion ; the dis- cussion of them must be beneficial to this numerous company of Athenians and of strangers . The ship like men ; but we , notwithstanding our easy and elegant way of life ...
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... opinion of ex- ploits must suffer by a strict relation . Every sea hath been opened by our fleets , and every land been penetrated by our armies , which have everywhere left behind them eternal monuments of our enmity and our friend ...
... opinion of ex- ploits must suffer by a strict relation . Every sea hath been opened by our fleets , and every land been penetrated by our armies , which have everywhere left behind them eternal monuments of our enmity and our friend ...
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... opinion has long prevailed , not only here at home , but likewise in foreign countries , both dangerous to you and per- nicious to the state , viz . , that in prosecutions men of wealth are always safe , however clearly convicted ...
... opinion has long prevailed , not only here at home , but likewise in foreign countries , both dangerous to you and per- nicious to the state , viz . , that in prosecutions men of wealth are always safe , however clearly convicted ...
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... opinion , and believe it more easy to support adversity than prosperity ; and that fortune is more treacherous and dangerous when she caresses than when she dismays . Experience has taught me this , not books or arguments . I have seen ...
... opinion , and believe it more easy to support adversity than prosperity ; and that fortune is more treacherous and dangerous when she caresses than when she dismays . Experience has taught me this , not books or arguments . I have seen ...
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... opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave , and out of his Christian name a synonyme for the Devil . ... To a modern statesman the form of the Dis- courses may appear to be puerile . In truth ...
... opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave , and out of his Christian name a synonyme for the Devil . ... To a modern statesman the form of the Dis- courses may appear to be puerile . In truth ...
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Page 49 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
Page 364 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 63 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases ; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not...
Page 476 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 64 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 177 - We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Page 63 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 29 - ... else; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Page 443 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 64 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.