 What can be more extraordinary, than that a person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness...  The Works of Abraham Cowley - Page 54by Abraham Cowley - 1806Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 540 pages
...no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, nor shining talents of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the abilities to execute, so great a design as the subverting one of the most ancient and best established... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 474 pages
...person of mean hirth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed in, so improhahle a design, as the destruction of one of the most ancient, and most solid founded monarchies... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes — or of mind, which have often — raised men to the highest dignities,...boldness to put his prince and master to an open and infamous death ; to banish that numerous and strongly allied family ; to do all this under the name... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...person of mean birth, no forlune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...boldness to put his prince and master to an open and infamous death ; to banish that numerous and strongly-allied family ; to do all this under the name... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 426 pages
...person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should...boldness to put his prince and master to an open and infamous death ; to banish that numerous and strongly-allied family ; to do all this under the name... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes — or of mind, which have often — raised men to the highest dignities,...most solidly-founded monarchies upon the earth? that ho should have the power or boldness to put his prince and master to an open and infamous death ; to... | |
 | J. Scott Clark - 1886 - 410 pages
...of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes — or of mind, which have often — raised men to the highest dignities,...the destruction of one of the most ancient and most solidly founded monarchies upon the earth?" XIII. CLIMAX. Definitions. — " Climax, or the rhetorical... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1886 - 406 pages
...fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes—or of mind, which have often—raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage...the destruction of one of the most ancient and most solidly founded monarchies upon the earth?" XIII. CLIMAX. Definitions.—" Climax, or the rhetorical... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1886 - 388 pages
...of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes — or of mind, which have often — raised men to the highest dignities,...courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed, I in so improbable a design as the destruction of one of the most ancient and most solidly founded... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1891 - 332 pages
...of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes — or of mind, which have often — raised men to the highest dignities,...the destruction of one of the most ancient and most solidly founded monarchies upon the earth ?" XIII. CLIMAX. Definition. — Climax is a Greek word meaning... | |
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