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Pagina 22
... nature . The captain of each district was to see that every man went to his work at the beat of drum , and , when the day's work was over , the drum was to be beat again and the captain was to bring them to evening prayers . Again , for ...
... nature . The captain of each district was to see that every man went to his work at the beat of drum , and , when the day's work was over , the drum was to be beat again and the captain was to bring them to evening prayers . Again , for ...
Pagina 28
... natures were singularly and fatally defective , but their respective good qualities were such as were exactly calculated mutually to supply their respective deficiencies , and their union has resulted , and will still result , in the ...
... natures were singularly and fatally defective , but their respective good qualities were such as were exactly calculated mutually to supply their respective deficiencies , and their union has resulted , and will still result , in the ...
Pagina 29
... natural resort of the fiercest and least cultivated of the Saxon tribes , -the home of the untamed spirits , prone to conflict , little disposed to settled order , and impatient under restraint ; who must have found in its circumstances ...
... natural resort of the fiercest and least cultivated of the Saxon tribes , -the home of the untamed spirits , prone to conflict , little disposed to settled order , and impatient under restraint ; who must have found in its circumstances ...
Pagina 34
... nature , a supposition which is not very likely , he might have been aware of the danger he incurred in thus driving to des- peration an adversary who was not contemptible , but whose weakness reduced him to offer terms for the purchase ...
... nature , a supposition which is not very likely , he might have been aware of the danger he incurred in thus driving to des- peration an adversary who was not contemptible , but whose weakness reduced him to offer terms for the purchase ...
Pagina 39
... natural outgrowth of such tenets , singularly unalleviated by any trace of recollection of a purer , milder , and more spiritual faith . Being neither better nor worse than its human imaginers so far as human action was concerned , the ...
... natural outgrowth of such tenets , singularly unalleviated by any trace of recollection of a purer , milder , and more spiritual faith . Being neither better nor worse than its human imaginers so far as human action was concerned , the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 68 - 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 73 - 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 35 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Pagina 75 - 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 51 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what...
Pagina 80 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Pagina 65 - While we were talking came by 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...
Pagina 80 - Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every " man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when the maxim of them of old time still prevailed over every other consideration, — " Thou shalt love u thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.