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... things ; but in Livy I stuck longer ; for as I was igno- rant of ancient history , and the diction in such works is more elevated than common , I scarcely in truth understood a single line . But as the edition was an old one ...
... things ; but in Livy I stuck longer ; for as I was igno- rant of ancient history , and the diction in such works is more elevated than common , I scarcely in truth understood a single line . But as the edition was an old one ...
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... things which I had written at the age of fourteen , and was wonderfully delighted with them . ' As to his doubts , he ... thing else , I applied myself to that . And in this way I reached my seventeenth year , happy in nothing more than ...
... things which I had written at the age of fourteen , and was wonderfully delighted with them . ' As to his doubts , he ... thing else , I applied myself to that . And in this way I reached my seventeenth year , happy in nothing more than ...
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... things , and something of every thing , so he had not entirely neglected Medicine , and was a little inclined , as many such men are , to play the doctor in his own case . It is said by some , that the immediate cause of his death was ...
... things , and something of every thing , so he had not entirely neglected Medicine , and was a little inclined , as many such men are , to play the doctor in his own case . It is said by some , that the immediate cause of his death was ...
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... thing than is customary with the vulgar , and of inventing new things . ' He also tells us he was endowed with a ... thing , and achieving every thing . În his desire of gaining new victories , he was too apt to leave behind him pro ...
... thing than is customary with the vulgar , and of inventing new things . ' He also tells us he was endowed with a ... thing , and achieving every thing . În his desire of gaining new victories , he was too apt to leave behind him pro ...
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... thing upon this subject . A man might as well put down any incoherent dream that visited him in the night , and call it philosophy . Who could not philosophize at this rate ? Can any thing , indeed , more gratuitous be imagined , if it ...
... thing upon this subject . A man might as well put down any incoherent dream that visited him in the night , and call it philosophy . Who could not philosophize at this rate ? Can any thing , indeed , more gratuitous be imagined , if it ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 400 - I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what...
Página 382 - God had endowed his Majesty with excellent science, and great endowments of nature; but his Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods or fortunes of his subjects, are not to be decided by natural reason, but by the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an art which requires long study and experience before that a man can attain to the cognizance of it...
Página 77 - It is a nest of wasps, or swarm of vermin which have overcrept the land. I mean the Monopolies and Pollers of the people : these, like the Frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup.
Página 400 - I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon this occasion; to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press: I will not avoid doing what I think is right; though it should draw on me the whole artillery of libels; all that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity of a deluded populace can swallow. I can say, with a great magistrate, upon an occasion and under circumstances not unlike, "Ego hoc animo semper fui, ut invidiam...
Página 480 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must it be after a winter?
Página 208 - Wonderful is its power to charm and to command. It is a mountain air. It is the embalmer of the world. It is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary. It makes the sky and the hills sublime, and the silent song of the stars is it.
Página 382 - ... that the law was the golden metwand and measure to try the causes of the subjects, and which protected his Majesty in safety and peace. With which the King was greatly offended, and said that then he should be under the law, which was treason to affirm, as he said; to which I said that Bracton saith, quod Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege [that the King ought not to be under man but under God and under the law—BT\.
Página 79 - OH, fond attempt to give a deathless lot To names ignoble, born to be forgot ! In vain, recorded in historic page, They court the notice of a future age : Those twinkling tiny lustres of the land Drop one by one from Fame's neglecting hand ; Lethaean gulfs receive them as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.
Página 208 - The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology!!!
Página 402 - ... for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world.