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... whose hiftory he gives us depend on the wifdom or folly of their own conduct . Xenophon , in distinction from both , invariably confiders the kindness or the vengeance of heaven as influ encing the event of human enterprizes . " That is ...
... whose hiftory he gives us depend on the wifdom or folly of their own conduct . Xenophon , in distinction from both , invariably confiders the kindness or the vengeance of heaven as influ encing the event of human enterprizes . " That is ...
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... whose wit fufpects the most , A fcarlet envoy from a wooden host , At this period the prytaneum , and the forum of Siphnos , were adorned with Parian marble . LVIII . This reply of the oracle the Siphnians were unable to comprehend ...
... whose wit fufpects the most , A fcarlet envoy from a wooden host , At this period the prytaneum , and the forum of Siphnos , were adorned with Parian marble . LVIII . This reply of the oracle the Siphnians were unable to comprehend ...
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... whose annals are come down to us , in which , from the fimilitude of person , factious individuals have not excited commotions . In the Roman government a false Pompey and a falfe Drufus claim our attention , because one exercised the ...
... whose annals are come down to us , in which , from the fimilitude of person , factious individuals have not excited commotions . In the Roman government a false Pompey and a falfe Drufus claim our attention , because one exercised the ...
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... whose death was required , flew for protection to the queen , whom he feized round the waift . This attitude did not fave him from the dag- ger of Ruthven ; and before he could be dragged to the next apartment , the rage of his enemies ...
... whose death was required , flew for protection to the queen , whom he feized round the waift . This attitude did not fave him from the dag- ger of Ruthven ; and before he could be dragged to the next apartment , the rage of his enemies ...
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... whose person he never had beheld . His affigned motive was com- monly reported to be this : Oroetes one day fitting at the gates of the palace 142 with another Perfian , whofe name was Mitrobates , governor of Dafcy- lium , entered into ...
... whose person he never had beheld . His affigned motive was com- monly reported to be this : Oroetes one day fitting at the gates of the palace 142 with another Perfian , whofe name was Mitrobates , governor of Dafcy- lium , entered into ...
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Page 5 - ... a rib Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, More to the part sinister, from me drawn ; Well if thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 17 - And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks !— No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep ; No, I'll not weep : — • I have full cause of weeping ; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I'll weep : — O, fool, I shall go mad ! {Exeunt LEAR, GLOSTER, KENT, and Fool.
Page 361 - And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 25 - Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
Page 76 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 266 - The first exploits of Trajan were against the Dacians, the most warlike of men, who dwelt beyond the Danube, and who, during the reign of Domitian, had insulted with impunity the Majesty of Rome. To the strength and fierceness of barbarians, they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
Page 9 - Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell : but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Page 262 - Bosphorus extends about sixteen miles, and its most ordinary breadth may be computed at about one mile and a half. The new castles of Europe and Asia are constructed, on either continent, upon the foundations of two celebrated temples, of Serapis and of Jupiter Urius. The old castles, a work of the Greek emperors, command the narrowest part of the channel, in a place where the opposite banks advance within five hundred paces of each other.
Page 415 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant ; it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighbourhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.
Page 99 - ... any inclination of their own, and to which they are resolved to adhere. As, however, it is necessary at last to come to some resolution, the major part of them are determined by reasons which they would blush to pay any regard to on much less serious occasions.