Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present Day, with IndexesJ.B. Lippincott, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... glory and power ; by what In the affairs of war we excel those of our. PERICLES , an illustrious Athenian statesman and orator , died в.с. 429 . " The history of eloquence at Athens is remark- able . From a very early period great ...
... glory and power ; by what In the affairs of war we excel those of our. PERICLES , an illustrious Athenian statesman and orator , died в.с. 429 . " The history of eloquence at Athens is remark- able . From a very early period great ...
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... glory gained by these . It is greatness of soul alone that never grows old ; nor is it wealth that delights in the latter stage of life , as some give out , so much as honour . To you , the sons and brothers of the de- ceased , whatever ...
... glory gained by these . It is greatness of soul alone that never grows old ; nor is it wealth that delights in the latter stage of life , as some give out , so much as honour . To you , the sons and brothers of the de- ceased , whatever ...
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... glory of ancestors casts a light , indeed , upon their posterity ; but only serves to show what the descendants are . It alike exhibits to public view their degeneracy and their worth . I own I cannot boast of the deeds of my ...
... glory of ancestors casts a light , indeed , upon their posterity ; but only serves to show what the descendants are . It alike exhibits to public view their degeneracy and their worth . I own I cannot boast of the deeds of my ...
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... glory of the world would be lost in oblivion if God had not provided mortals with a remedy in books . Alexander the ruler of the world , Julius the invader of the world and of the city , the first who in unity of person as- sumed the ...
... glory of the world would be lost in oblivion if God had not provided mortals with a remedy in books . Alexander the ruler of the world , Julius the invader of the world and of the city , the first who in unity of person as- sumed the ...
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... glory and to his own everlasting wealth . Wherefore well is he that ever he was born , for whom thus graciously God hath provided , having grace of God , and strength of the Holy Ghost , to stand stead- fastly in the height of the storm ...
... glory and to his own everlasting wealth . Wherefore well is he that ever he was born , for whom thus graciously God hath provided , having grace of God , and strength of the Holy Ghost , to stand stead- fastly in the height of the storm ...
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2d edit admiration Æneid affection ancient appear beauty born Bost called character Christ Christian church Cicero Clovernook death delight died divine Don Quixote DUGALD STEWART Edin England English English language Essays eternal excellent eyes feel genius give glory hand happiness hath heart heaven History honour human imagination JOSEPH WARTON Julius Cæsar kind king knowledge labour language learning Lect less Letters light live LL.D Lond look Lord Lord Macaulay Macvey Napier mankind manner ment mind moral nature ness never object observed opinion passion perfect person Petrarch Phila philosopher Phrenology Plato pleasure Poems poet poetry political prose reason religion Scripture sense Sermons soul speak spirit style taste things thou thought tion translation truth unto Virgil virtue vols whole WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT wisdom words writings
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Página 354 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honoured throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as
Página 64 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 64 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Página 490 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 40 - And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Página 225 - I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human...
Página 167 - ... of the woods — to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character.
Página 354 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 226 - The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved...
Página 315 - Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as younkers of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building, you may think it) what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.