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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... . Perhaps too , thofe who long ago have read , and long ago defifted from reading hif- tories well - known , may like to pleafe their fancies with the the Retrospect of what they feel connected in their minds PREFACE . vii.
... . Perhaps too , thofe who long ago have read , and long ago defifted from reading hif- tories well - known , may like to pleafe their fancies with the the Retrospect of what they feel connected in their minds PREFACE . vii.
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... known - That honesty's the best policy - nor can more perfect teftimonial to its truth be found , than that fuch was the fixed opinion of a prince , confummate master of diffimulation . Machiavelli borrowed one of his earlier maxims ...
... known - That honesty's the best policy - nor can more perfect teftimonial to its truth be found , than that fuch was the fixed opinion of a prince , confummate master of diffimulation . Machiavelli borrowed one of his earlier maxims ...
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... known by the name of Rhætabona , from its inhabitants the Rhætians , and this appellation has been scarcely changed . But we must hold our eye firm to the first century , which has produced fuch deathless writers , heirs of immortal ...
... known by the name of Rhætabona , from its inhabitants the Rhætians , and this appellation has been scarcely changed . But we must hold our eye firm to the first century , which has produced fuch deathless writers , heirs of immortal ...
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... known to be no fable . + Juvenal feems to have known the peculiarities of our islands well enough . Sm Armo quid ultra Littora juberna promovimus et modo captas Orcadis , et minima contentos nocte Britannos . his foldiers cach of them ...
... known to be no fable . + Juvenal feems to have known the peculiarities of our islands well enough . Sm Armo quid ultra Littora juberna promovimus et modo captas Orcadis , et minima contentos nocte Britannos . his foldiers cach of them ...
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... known to have sheltered one another , while they exposed themselves ; contrafting the courage and virtue of St. Paul against the profligacy and cowardice of Nero , a diffimilitude not to be matched for remoteness within the limits of ...
... known to have sheltered one another , while they exposed themselves ; contrafting the courage and virtue of St. Paul against the profligacy and cowardice of Nero , a diffimilitude not to be matched for remoteness within the limits of ...
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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.