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... fortune . The battle began before noon : and part of the Prussian army maintained the contest till after the midsummer sun had gone down . But at length the king found that his troops , having been repeatedly driven back with frightful ...
... fortune . The battle began before noon : and part of the Prussian army maintained the contest till after the midsummer sun had gone down . But at length the king found that his troops , having been repeatedly driven back with frightful ...
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... fortune of the day seemed to incline towards the Cæsarians , he quietly withdrew , without the loss of a single vessel , while of his allies thus treacherously deserted , five galleys were sunk and four captured . Thucydides , ii . 91 ...
... fortune of the day seemed to incline towards the Cæsarians , he quietly withdrew , without the loss of a single vessel , while of his allies thus treacherously deserted , five galleys were sunk and four captured . Thucydides , ii . 91 ...
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... fortunes of the garrison . But by this regulation he got rid of seven hundred useless persons , who , if they had stayed , must have been the victims of famine ; and ' their dead bodies , ' the admiral coolly remarked , ' would have ...
... fortunes of the garrison . But by this regulation he got rid of seven hundred useless persons , who , if they had stayed , must have been the victims of famine ; and ' their dead bodies , ' the admiral coolly remarked , ' would have ...
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... fortune , would always lead them to face the most terrible dangers . It was with states as with individuals . None ever embarked in a war without what seemed to it a reasonable prospect of success ; and none would ever be re- strained ...
... fortune , would always lead them to face the most terrible dangers . It was with states as with individuals . None ever embarked in a war without what seemed to it a reasonable prospect of success ; and none would ever be re- strained ...
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... fortune wrought upon his nature , and his nature upon his fortune . He attained to the crown , not only from a private fortune , which might endow him with moderation , 38 For Greek Prose .
... fortune wrought upon his nature , and his nature upon his fortune . He attained to the crown , not only from a private fortune , which might endow him with moderation , 38 For Greek Prose .
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admiration Æschines Æthelburh Anab Andocides appeared Aristophanes Aristotle arms army Arrian battle beautiful called carried cause character Chersones Corona creature cried Critias Ctes danger dark death deliberative assembly Demosthenes desire earth endeavoured enemy evil eyes favour feel fire fortune Gauls Gorgias Greek gret hand happiness hath heart heaven Herodotus Hippias major honourable human Indians inhabitants Isocrates King labour Lagoras land less liberty live look Lucian Lysias mankind means mind nation nature never night noble object Olynth opinion Orat pass passion peace person Phædo Phædrus Plato pleasure poet political present prince Protag race reason regicide Repub rest river Roman ships side soldiers spirit strong things thou thought Thucydides Timaus tion town truth unto viii virtue vulgar whole wisdom words Xenophon xviii
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Page 65 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, — they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 99 - MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 284 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Page 188 - Then he falls upon them, and beats them fearfully in such sort that they were not able to help themselves, or to turn them upon the floor. This done, he withdraws, and leaves them there to condole their misery, and to mourn under their distress : so all that day they spent their time in nothing but sighs and bitter lamentations.
Page 65 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 178 - there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
Page 177 - For I remember very well, in a discourse one day with the King, when I happened to say there were several thousand books among us written upon the art of government, it gave him (directly contrary to my intention) a very mean opinion of our understandings. He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister. He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy or some rival nation were not in the case.
Page 182 - It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly.
Page 178 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 12 - ... whom they casually met, without sense, or reason. The clamour and peril grew so excessive, that it made the whole Court amazed, and they did with infinite pains and great difficulty reduce and appease the people, sending troops of soldiers and guards, to cause them to retire into the fields again, where they were watched all this night. I left them pretty quiet, and came home sufficiently weary and broken.