The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically ArrangedH. D. Symonds, 1795 - 406 páginas |
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... Louis XIV . at once the greatest and meanest of mankind , would have excelled all the monarchs in the universe , if he had not been corrupted in his youth by base and ambitious flatterers . Α slave slave during his whole life to pride ...
... Louis XIV . at once the greatest and meanest of mankind , would have excelled all the monarchs in the universe , if he had not been corrupted in his youth by base and ambitious flatterers . Α slave slave during his whole life to pride ...
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... Louis XIV . one day said to a man who had rendered considerable services to Charles II . of Spain , and who had lived familiarly with him : The king of Spain then loved you much ? Ah ! sire , replied the poor courtier , who is it that ...
... Louis XIV . one day said to a man who had rendered considerable services to Charles II . of Spain , and who had lived familiarly with him : The king of Spain then loved you much ? Ah ! sire , replied the poor courtier , who is it that ...
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... [ Louis XIV . ] absolutely governed by women and yet , considering his age , I believe there was no monarch in the universe who had less occasion for them . I one day ' overheard a woman saying : We must do someting for that young colonel ...
... [ Louis XIV . ] absolutely governed by women and yet , considering his age , I believe there was no monarch in the universe who had less occasion for them . I one day ' overheard a woman saying : We must do someting for that young colonel ...
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... Louis XIV . at his splendid chateau of Vaux . Just be- fore his disgrace the king treated him with all the marks of a decided partiality . Princes , I know not for what reason , generally affect to overwhelm with tokens of their regard ...
... Louis XIV . at his splendid chateau of Vaux . Just be- fore his disgrace the king treated him with all the marks of a decided partiality . Princes , I know not for what reason , generally affect to overwhelm with tokens of their regard ...
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... Louis XIV . NOBILITY resideth not but in the soul , nor is there true honour except in virtue . The favour of princes may be bought by vices ; rank and titles may be purchased for money , but these are not true houour . Crimes cannot ...
... Louis XIV . NOBILITY resideth not but in the soul , nor is there true honour except in virtue . The favour of princes may be bought by vices ; rank and titles may be purchased for money , but these are not true houour . Crimes cannot ...
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Página 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Página 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Página 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Página 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Página 336 - 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. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Página 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.