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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... manners , which thus could prompt a wit of our own days to deny what ancient learning fo fteadily confirms . But whilft he fought in groves and grottoes , a fhelter for his own depravity , sur new cities rofe around the extended empire ...
... manners , which thus could prompt a wit of our own days to deny what ancient learning fo fteadily confirms . But whilft he fought in groves and grottoes , a fhelter for his own depravity , sur new cities rofe around the extended empire ...
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... manners Cyrus , who overthrew the Babylon they hated ; was called , in admiration of his fuperior excellence , Delight of human kind . Now too , as if the world would fain repofe after the bloody contests between Otho and Vitellius ...
... manners Cyrus , who overthrew the Babylon they hated ; was called , in admiration of his fuperior excellence , Delight of human kind . Now too , as if the world would fain repofe after the bloody contests between Otho and Vitellius ...
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... manners . His heart fhewed resemblance to that of his favourite fon , when , though Vitellius was his greatest enemy , he fought out the daughter of his foe , and fortuned her , mar- rying her fplendidly to a patrician house ...
... manners . His heart fhewed resemblance to that of his favourite fon , when , though Vitellius was his greatest enemy , he fought out the daughter of his foe , and fortuned her , mar- rying her fplendidly to a patrician house ...
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... manners , and a lefs embarrassed creed - it is not my intention either to affert or to deny . Certain it is , that of these last feven one has apoftatized , who once gloried in her riches like that of Laodicea . * Our attention meantime ...
... manners , and a lefs embarrassed creed - it is not my intention either to affert or to deny . Certain it is , that of these last feven one has apoftatized , who once gloried in her riches like that of Laodicea . * Our attention meantime ...
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... manners of Romulus and Numa , of Tullus Hoftilius , and Ancus Martius , promoted fenfibly the general good , and matured the state's profperity . A like variety , for fpring and autumn have a strong resemblance ; may be faid to present ...
... manners of Romulus and Numa , of Tullus Hoftilius , and Ancus Martius , promoted fenfibly the general good , and matured the state's profperity . A like variety , for fpring and autumn have a strong resemblance ; may be faid to present ...
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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.