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Page 9369
... True Knowledge of God ; Superfluous Things ; Evil Things contrasted with Good . Things ; Thought of Sins ; Low Speech Condemned ; Control Bodily Desires ; The Moral Equipoise SIR HENRY MAINE BY D. MACG . MEANS 1822-1888 9605 The ...
... True Knowledge of God ; Superfluous Things ; Evil Things contrasted with Good . Things ; Thought of Sins ; Low Speech Condemned ; Control Bodily Desires ; The Moral Equipoise SIR HENRY MAINE BY D. MACG . MEANS 1822-1888 9605 The ...
Page 9382
... true vocation , and entered on it eagerly and with delight . In March 1827 came the essay on Machia- velli ; and during 1828 those on John Dryden , on History , and on Hal- lam's ' Constitutional History . ' During 1829 he wrote and ...
... true vocation , and entered on it eagerly and with delight . In March 1827 came the essay on Machia- velli ; and during 1828 those on John Dryden , on History , and on Hal- lam's ' Constitutional History . ' During 1829 he wrote and ...
Page 9384
... true of particular scenes and incidents in the Essays is equally true of many of them in the whole . Long periods of time , great political movements , com- plicated policies , fluctuations of ministries , are sketched with an accu ...
... true of particular scenes and incidents in the Essays is equally true of many of them in the whole . Long periods of time , great political movements , com- plicated policies , fluctuations of ministries , are sketched with an accu ...
Page 9389
... true , quite unacquainted with that principle which has , in our own time , produced an unprecedented revolution in human affairs ; which has enabled navies to advance in face of wind and tide , and brigades of troops , attended by all ...
... true , quite unacquainted with that principle which has , in our own time , produced an unprecedented revolution in human affairs ; which has enabled navies to advance in face of wind and tide , and brigades of troops , attended by all ...
Page 9397
... true , were heard by our ancestors with eagerness and faith . THE DELUSION OF OVERRATING THE HAPPINESS OF OUR THE ANCESTORS From the History of England ' HE general effect of the evidence which has been submitted to the reader seems ...
... true , were heard by our ancestors with eagerness and faith . THE DELUSION OF OVERRATING THE HAPPINESS OF OUR THE ANCESTORS From the History of England ' HE general effect of the evidence which has been submitted to the reader seems ...
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Page 9600 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Page 9770 - When we have run our passion's heat, Love hither makes his best retreat. The Gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race; Apollo hunted Daphne so, Only that she might laurel grow; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed.
Page 9760 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
Page 9411 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 9769 - How vainly men themselves amaze. To win the palm, the oak, or bays: And their incessant labors see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flowers and trees do close, To weave the garlands of repose.
Page 9424 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Page 9439 - And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand! And as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Page 9722 - Unto some brutish beast. All beasts are happy, For when they die Their souls are soon dissolved in elements, But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.
Page 9437 - quoth false Sextus, " Will not the villain drown? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town !" " Heaven help him ! " quoth Lars Porsena, "And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
Page 9721 - Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!