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Pagina 22
... John Smith : it is an unheroic name , but he was a man of true heroic temper , and he managed for awhile to stave off disaster . This disaster was rendered inevitable by the men who were sent out . Two years after his appointment came ...
... John Smith : it is an unheroic name , but he was a man of true heroic temper , and he managed for awhile to stave off disaster . This disaster was rendered inevitable by the men who were sent out . Two years after his appointment came ...
Pagina 41
... John into Anglo - Saxon . The narrative is too long here to be quoted , but has been repeatedly translated , and needs only to be mentioned as a case in point . As a last and very pertinent example , where many similar might be adduced ...
... John into Anglo - Saxon . The narrative is too long here to be quoted , but has been repeatedly translated , and needs only to be mentioned as a case in point . As a last and very pertinent example , where many similar might be adduced ...
Pagina 48
... John ) broke the heart , and ended the life of Henry II . altogether . It was , perhaps , this higher capacity for suffering , which marked that fiery element in Henry II . , which was so indispensable to meet the emergency in which he ...
... John ) broke the heart , and ended the life of Henry II . altogether . It was , perhaps , this higher capacity for suffering , which marked that fiery element in Henry II . , which was so indispensable to meet the emergency in which he ...
Pagina 49
... John , we find the family energy , no longer like a rushing stream , either devastating or fertilising , but drawn down into a raging , destructive maelstrom , circling ever round and about selfish hopes , fears , and ambitions . John's ...
... John , we find the family energy , no longer like a rushing stream , either devastating or fertilising , but drawn down into a raging , destructive maelstrom , circling ever round and about selfish hopes , fears , and ambitions . John's ...
Pagina 50
... John's life ; but the faithless- ness , real or apparent , involved in the constant shifting of his point of view and ground of action was intolerable to his people . The Barons took up arms against him in order to compel him to keep to ...
... John's life ; but the faithless- ness , real or apparent , involved in the constant shifting of his point of view and ground of action was intolerable to his people . The Barons took up arms against him in order to compel him to keep to ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 67 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 22 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Pagina 24 - Art, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Pagina 72 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Pagina 74 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Pagina 90 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage ; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe; Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Pagina 86 - Threatning to bind our soules with secular chaines : Helpe us to save free Conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose Gospell is their maw.
Pagina 64 - I saw several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched ! 8th.