ProseSamuel Walker, 1826 |
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Página 501
... virtue in action , by action to be honoured for it by fuch as you fee the public gratitude now perfo ming about this funeral ; and that the virtues of many ought not to be endangered by the manage- ment of any one perfon , when their ...
... virtue in action , by action to be honoured for it by fuch as you fee the public gratitude now perfo ming about this funeral ; and that the virtues of many ought not to be endangered by the manage- ment of any one perfon , when their ...
Página 503
... virtue but that of valour . Their last service effaceth all former demerits - it extends to the public ; their private demeanors reached only to a few . Yet not one of thefe was at all induced to shrink from danger through fondness of ...
... virtue but that of valour . Their last service effaceth all former demerits - it extends to the public ; their private demeanors reached only to a few . Yet not one of thefe was at all induced to shrink from danger through fondness of ...
Página 505
... virtue , I fhall exprefs it all in one fhort admonition : -It is your great- eft glory not to be deficient in the virtue peculiar to your fex , and to give the men as little handle as poffible to talk of your behaviour , whether well or ...
... virtue , I fhall exprefs it all in one fhort admonition : -It is your great- eft glory not to be deficient in the virtue peculiar to your fex , and to give the men as little handle as poffible to talk of your behaviour , whether well or ...
Página 509
... virtue , or his phlegm at least , had not restrained him : but he lived in a perpetual expec- ation of receiving from the gift of the people , what he did not care to seize by force ; and , by fomenting the dif orders of the city ...
... virtue , or his phlegm at least , had not restrained him : but he lived in a perpetual expec- ation of receiving from the gift of the people , what he did not care to seize by force ; and , by fomenting the dif orders of the city ...
Página 513
... virtue , liberty ; yet , falfely mea- CESAR's Murder . Romans , countrymen , and lovers ! Hear me , for my caufe ; and be filent , that you may hear . Believe me , for mine honour ; and have refpect to mine honour , that you may believe ...
... virtue , liberty ; yet , falfely mea- CESAR's Murder . Romans , countrymen , and lovers ! Hear me , for my caufe ; and be filent , that you may hear . Believe me , for mine honour ; and have refpect to mine honour , that you may believe ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 729 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 657 - The curse never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear ! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin...
Página 505 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 514 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Página 883 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 778 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Página 725 - ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 831 - I shall say but little at present of their Learning, which for many Ages hath flourished in all its Branches among them : But their manner of Writing is very peculiar, being neither from the Left to the Right, like the Europeans ; nor from the Right to the Left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese , nor from down to up, like the Cascagians ; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like Ladies in England.
Página 870 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 585 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. " But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.