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... subject . It is true , he , as well as many others among these ancients , had a wonderful power of compression , and a knack of cramming a great many things into a ... subjects . REMARKABLE EVENTS . MARS , THE GOD OF WAR . INTRODUCTION .
... subject . It is true , he , as well as many others among these ancients , had a wonderful power of compression , and a knack of cramming a great many things into a ... subjects . REMARKABLE EVENTS . MARS , THE GOD OF WAR . INTRODUCTION .
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... subjects . " Such is the traditionary account of the founding of the most famous city the world has ever seen . N the year 490 B.C. Darius , king of Persia , sent Datis and Artaphernes against Greece . That his tenants might appear with ...
... subjects . " Such is the traditionary account of the founding of the most famous city the world has ever seen . N the year 490 B.C. Darius , king of Persia , sent Datis and Artaphernes against Greece . That his tenants might appear with ...
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... subjects . The pres- ence of their prince operated on their hopes , and still more powerfully on their fears . But neither the hope of acquiring fled in all directions . The victors , dis- daining to pursue them , dragged the most ...
... subjects . The pres- ence of their prince operated on their hopes , and still more powerfully on their fears . But neither the hope of acquiring fled in all directions . The victors , dis- daining to pursue them , dragged the most ...
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... subjects had either inflicted or suffered . The Greeks , on the other hand , spent the winter in dividing the spoil ; assign- ing to the different commanders the prizes of conduct and valour ; performing the last offices to the dead ...
... subjects had either inflicted or suffered . The Greeks , on the other hand , spent the winter in dividing the spoil ; assign- ing to the different commanders the prizes of conduct and valour ; performing the last offices to the dead ...
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... subject . While the Greeks doubted what course to pursue , a certain Rhodian undertook to deliver them from their perplexity , provided they gave him a talent , to reward his labour . " I shall want , besides , " continued he , " two ...
... subject . While the Greeks doubted what course to pursue , a certain Rhodian undertook to deliver them from their perplexity , provided they gave him a talent , to reward his labour . " I shall want , besides , " continued he , " two ...
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Page 213 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Page 298 - Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north; And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still : All night from tower to tower they sprang ; they sprang from hill to hill...
Page 486 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die : These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 486 - While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows; And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain; Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue; And even in penance planning sins anew.
Page 268 - ... rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits "of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed...
Page 268 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men —the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 298 - And the broad streams of pikes and flags rushed down each roaring street: And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, As fast from every village round the horse came spurring in : And eastward straight, from wild Blackheath, the warlike errand went, And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent.
Page 298 - Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire. The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves : O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew : He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu.
Page 266 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.