Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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Pagina 11
... strong by nature or by art , could resist , with arms before which rivers parted like the Jordan , and ramparts fell down like the walls of Jericho . The great masters of fleets and armies were often reduced to confess , like Milton's ...
... strong by nature or by art , could resist , with arms before which rivers parted like the Jordan , and ramparts fell down like the walls of Jericho . The great masters of fleets and armies were often reduced to confess , like Milton's ...
Pagina 19
... strong . There was one great and effectual limitation on the royal authority , the knowledge that , if the patience of the nation were severely tried , the nation would put forth its strength , and that its strength would be found ...
... strong . There was one great and effectual limitation on the royal authority , the knowledge that , if the patience of the nation were severely tried , the nation would put forth its strength , and that its strength would be found ...
Pagina 67
... strong- hold , which nature has made all but impregnable , and against which all the resources of the military art have been employed in vain , was taken as easily as if it had been an open village in a plain . The garrison went to say ...
... strong- hold , which nature has made all but impregnable , and against which all the resources of the military art have been employed in vain , was taken as easily as if it had been an open village in a plain . The garrison went to say ...
Pagina 71
... strong fortifications of Monjuich . The walls were so exten- sive , that thirty thousand men would scarcely have been sufficient to invest them . The garrison was as numerous as the besieging army . The best officers in the Spanish ...
... strong fortifications of Monjuich . The walls were so exten- sive , that thirty thousand men would scarcely have been sufficient to invest them . The garrison was as numerous as the besieging army . The best officers in the Spanish ...
Pagina 78
... strong fortresses been taken by surprise : in no country have unfortified towns made so furious and obstinate a resistance to great armies . War in Spain has , from the days of the Romans , had a character of its own ; it is a fire ...
... strong fortresses been taken by surprise : in no country have unfortified towns made so furious and obstinate a resistance to great armies . War in Spain has , from the days of the Romans , had a character of its own ; it is a fire ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 240 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Pagina 425 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. 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.
Pagina 425 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 37 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Pagina 425 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 262 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Pagina 582 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Pagina 394 - Finis et scopus quem leges intueri atque ad quem jussiones et sanctiones suas dirigere debent, non alius est quam ut cives feliciter degant. Id fiet si pietate et religione recte instituti, moribus honesti, armis adversus hostes externos tuti, legum auxilio adversus seditiones et privatas injurias muniti, imperio et magistratibus obsequentes, copiis et opibus locupletes et florentes fuerint.
Pagina 378 - Assuredly if the tree which Socrates planted and Plato watered is to be judged of by its flowers and leaves, it is the noblest of trees. But if we take the homely test of Bacon, if we judge of the tree by its fruits, our opinion of it may perhaps be less favorable.
Pagina 426 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.