Notes on the Cape of Good Hope: Made During an Excursion in that Colony in the Year 1820John Murray, 1821 - 207 páginas |
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Página 79 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Página 108 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out, to tire each other down...
Página 207 - Caesar is as much known by the one designation as by the other. The amount, then, is only this, that the conqueror of Pompey conquered Pompey, or somebody conquered Pompey ; or rather, since Pompey is as little known now as Caesar, somebody conquered somebody. Such a poor business is this boasted immortality ; and such as has been here described, is the thing called glory among us.
Página 207 - And beside, in reality, the man is not known ever the more to posterity, because his name is transmitted to them : He doth not live, because his name does. When it is said Julius Caesar subdued Gaul, beat Pompey, and changed the Roman commonwealth into a monarchy...
Página 105 - ... the harmony of sounds. Now it appears to us, with all deference to these authorities, that it is highly probable that the Greeks were in the habit of using concords — and this very circumstance of the double row of musical characters proves that their music was in different parts. Harmony, indeed, is not an adventitious quality in sonorous bodies, but is in some sense inherent in every sound, however produced. Every sound is as much made up of three component parts, as a ray of light is composed...
Página 104 - Let me be called a base man, so I am called a rich one. If a man is rich, who asks if he is good ? The question is, how much we have, not from whence, or by what means, we have it. Every one has so much merit as he has wealth. For my own part, let me be rich, oh ye gods ! or let me die.
Página 161 - ... but to forsake this world for ever, with all the vanities and vexations of it, and to bury myself there in some obscure retreat, but not without the consolation of letters and philosophy.
Página 171 - April (the beginning of winter) to the 1st September (its close) the wind scarcely ever blows from the SE...
Página 171 - ... rolled in ; but never any high breaking sea. Ships have, from time to time, rode during the whole year in this bay ; and some of his majesty's ships have rode out the heaviest southeast gales that have been known. " Had I my choice of trusting my ship, for the year round, to Torbay in England, Palermo Bay in Sicily, Table Bay, or Algoa Bay, I should, without hesitation, prefer the anchorage off Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay. " From the 1st of April to the 1st of September, the wind scarce ever blows...
Página 204 - Caesar's share he certainly exacted with rigorous scrupulosity ; what he gave to God it would be less easy to discover. However, misfortunes may perchance have ' changed his hand and checked his pride .' for we now see him attentive to the forms of worship, and to exercises of piety, when his example can be no longer imposing — when his indifference would pass unregarded.