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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... not to prefs on them with my own re- flections , rather suggesting thoughts in their minds , than forcing forward those entertained by the author : yet if the the chain of events here untwisted should lend them rea- X PREFACE .
... not to prefs on them with my own re- flections , rather suggesting thoughts in their minds , than forcing forward those entertained by the author : yet if the the chain of events here untwisted should lend them rea- X PREFACE .
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... forced the Romans to confefs our island , favage as it was , could not be fubjugated by lefs than their best troops ... forcing accommodation from rebellious climates , and feafons adverfe to our vain . defires . Voluptuous , rather than ...
... forced the Romans to confefs our island , favage as it was , could not be fubjugated by lefs than their best troops ... forcing accommodation from rebellious climates , and feafons adverfe to our vain . defires . Voluptuous , rather than ...
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... forcing those few wretches whom their had rolled over , to eat their own dead friends ; and purchase , by conceffions no Chrif- tian can describe , a hated though fhort exiftence . Such conduct excited 1 rage Adrian's Adrian's ...
... forcing those few wretches whom their had rolled over , to eat their own dead friends ; and purchase , by conceffions no Chrif- tian can describe , a hated though fhort exiftence . Such conduct excited 1 rage Adrian's Adrian's ...
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... forced out those talents for military glory which had till then , by his own wish , remained unknown . They fucceeded however , and he returned in triumph to his capital : where the fine statue of him still remained in the year 1786 ...
... forced out those talents for military glory which had till then , by his own wish , remained unknown . They fucceeded however , and he returned in triumph to his capital : where the fine statue of him still remained in the year 1786 ...
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... forced An adage Claudian configned to poetical remembrance , by adaptation , many ages after . - Nunquam libertas gratior exftat quam fub rege pio . from from the dying patriot a groan of anguish - To CH . II . ] 53 FROM TRAJAN TO ...
... forced An adage Claudian configned to poetical remembrance , by adaptation , many ages after . - Nunquam libertas gratior exftat quam fub rege pio . from from the dying patriot a groan of anguish - To CH . II . ] 53 FROM TRAJAN TO ...
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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.