Retrospection: Or: A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind, 1-2권J. Stockdale, 1801 |
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... killed Caligula , maffacred , with unfeeling rage , his infant daughter in her mother's arms . Tacitus relates of many nobles a conduct little behind that of the Emperors themselves ; and Pliny , like a good naturalift , calls Aquileius ...
... killed Caligula , maffacred , with unfeeling rage , his infant daughter in her mother's arms . Tacitus relates of many nobles a conduct little behind that of the Emperors themselves ; and Pliny , like a good naturalift , calls Aquileius ...
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... killed the unborn infant . Suetonius wrote the lives of twelve men , who have for ages fince been called the twelve Cæfars ; but ' tis in com- pliment to the writer . of of whofe love for riches pervades us ftill . That 28 [ CH . 1 ...
... killed the unborn infant . Suetonius wrote the lives of twelve men , who have for ages fince been called the twelve Cæfars ; but ' tis in com- pliment to the writer . of of whofe love for riches pervades us ftill . That 28 [ CH . 1 ...
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... kill ; though controverfy raged between the eastern and the western church with a degree of violence incredible . One may observe , in- deed , that early difcuffions in faith or politics add energy and ftrength both to the church and ...
... kill ; though controverfy raged between the eastern and the western church with a degree of violence incredible . One may observe , in- deed , that early difcuffions in faith or politics add energy and ftrength both to the church and ...
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... killed , who held her darling clafped in her faithful arms , when the indignant foldiery , enraged at hearing he defigned to take his cousin's life , young Alexander ; fet him upon the throne , and finished the fanatic revels of ...
... killed , who held her darling clafped in her faithful arms , when the indignant foldiery , enraged at hearing he defigned to take his cousin's life , young Alexander ; fet him upon the throne , and finished the fanatic revels of ...
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... killed himself , leaving two others , equally impotent patricians , to dif pute the prize of momentary power . Yet perilous , as we should at this . distance , seeing but with Retrospection's eye , deem the fad state of those who stood ...
... killed himself , leaving two others , equally impotent patricians , to dif pute the prize of momentary power . Yet perilous , as we should at this . distance , seeing but with Retrospection's eye , deem the fad state of those who stood ...
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331 페이지 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
194 페이지 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
523 페이지 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
439 페이지 - I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or not.
340 페이지 - But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
331 페이지 - Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain, " Think nothing gain'd," he cries, " till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
204 페이지 - And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
216 페이지 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
126 페이지 - Lo ! these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others good, or melt at others woe.
285 페이지 - Sick, the Devil a Monk would be, But when the Devil was well, the Devil a Monk was he.