Retrospection: Or: A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind, 第 1~2 巻J. Stockdale, 1801 |
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... subjects live by labour , if all their work is to be done by engines ? On the contrary , this youth , elaborately volup- tuous , gave immenfe fums to the inventors of umbrella chariots , which , believe , had fprings to them befides ...
... subjects live by labour , if all their work is to be done by engines ? On the contrary , this youth , elaborately volup- tuous , gave immenfe fums to the inventors of umbrella chariots , which , believe , had fprings to them befides ...
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... subjects a new lesson ; they hafted to take out the name of Geta from medals , coins , & c . nay even from the comedies of Terence , substituting quickly fome other in its room ; nor dared a private man , making his will , bequeath a ...
... subjects a new lesson ; they hafted to take out the name of Geta from medals , coins , & c . nay even from the comedies of Terence , substituting quickly fome other in its room ; nor dared a private man , making his will , bequeath a ...
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... subjects ; he stopt all perfecution of the unoffending Christians , and though a poly- theift by profeffion , kept a picture of our Saviour always in his closet , a crucifix at his bed's head ; but better far than all exterior reverence ...
... subjects ; he stopt all perfecution of the unoffending Christians , and though a poly- theift by profeffion , kept a picture of our Saviour always in his closet , a crucifix at his bed's head ; but better far than all exterior reverence ...
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... subject , for that cause and many others , to inconceivable abufes . Meanwhile the hierarchy held * I have read fomewhere , that Alexander had the fecret of cooling his liquors by ice , while he was in India , though Pliny speaks of it ...
... subject , for that cause and many others , to inconceivable abufes . Meanwhile the hierarchy held * I have read fomewhere , that Alexander had the fecret of cooling his liquors by ice , while he was in India , though Pliny speaks of it ...
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... subjects fo corrupt : a general - who had driven the invading Franks from before the gates of old Ravenna , and in the course of many victories , had killed by his own personal prowess nine hundred enemies of Rome . Longinus , now ...
... subjects fo corrupt : a general - who had driven the invading Franks from before the gates of old Ravenna , and in the course of many victories , had killed by his own personal prowess nine hundred enemies of Rome . Longinus , now ...
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331 ページ - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
194 ページ - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
523 ページ - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
439 ページ - I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or not.
340 ページ - But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
331 ページ - Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain, " Think nothing gain'd," he cries, " till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
204 ページ - And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
216 ページ - The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
126 ページ - Lo ! these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others good, or melt at others woe.
285 ページ - Sick, the Devil a Monk would be, But when the Devil was well, the Devil a Monk was he.