Typical selections from the best English authors, with introductory notices [by E. E. Smith], Volume 21876 |
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... honour of dogs , that the two most ancient and esteemable books , sacred and prophane , extant ( viz . the Scripture and Homer ) have shown a particular regard to these animals . That of Toby is the more remarkable , because there seem ...
... honour of dogs , that the two most ancient and esteemable books , sacred and prophane , extant ( viz . the Scripture and Homer ) have shown a particular regard to these animals . That of Toby is the more remarkable , because there seem ...
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... honoured with a tomb by the Athenians , who gave the name of the Dog's Grave to that part of the island where he was buried . This respect to a dog in the most polite people of the world , is very observable . A modern instance of grati ...
... honoured with a tomb by the Athenians , who gave the name of the Dog's Grave to that part of the island where he was buried . This respect to a dog in the most polite people of the world , is very observable . A modern instance of grati ...
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... honour of dying in his service . This part of the show seemed to me so barbarous , that I removed from the window upon the first appearance of it . They were all naked to the middle . Some had their arms pierced through with arrows ...
... honour of dying in his service . This part of the show seemed to me so barbarous , that I removed from the window upon the first appearance of it . They were all naked to the middle . Some had their arms pierced through with arrows ...
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... honour to the two nations . Even Spain , which seems not to be the soil where , of late at least letters have either prospered or been culti- vated , has produced a dictionary , and a good one too , of the Spanish language , in six ...
... honour to the two nations . Even Spain , which seems not to be the soil where , of late at least letters have either prospered or been culti- vated , has produced a dictionary , and a good one too , of the Spanish language , in six ...
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... honour , the advan- tage , or the ornament of my native country . I have there- fore a sensible pleasure in reflecting upon the rapid progress which our language has lately made , and still continues to make , all over Europe . It is ...
... honour , the advan- tage , or the ornament of my native country . I have there- fore a sensible pleasure in reflecting upon the rapid progress which our language has lately made , and still continues to make , all over Europe . It is ...
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Page 192 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Page 454 - 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 188 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Page 196 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 76 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page 195 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
Page 451 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves 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.
Page 461 - ... with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Page 455 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.