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... Italy was pur- chased by the immense ransom or dowry of the Princess Honoria . The state of his army might ... Italians . 9. The Spaniards , while thus employed , were sur- rounded by many of the natives , who gazed in silent admiration ...
... Italy was pur- chased by the immense ransom or dowry of the Princess Honoria . The state of his army might ... Italians . 9. The Spaniards , while thus employed , were sur- rounded by many of the natives , who gazed in silent admiration ...
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... Italy to my obedience . " " What then ? " says Cineas . " To pass over into Sicily , " says Pyrrhus , " and then all the Sicilians must be our subjects . " " And what does your majesty intend next ? " " Why truly , " says the king ...
... Italy to my obedience . " " What then ? " says Cineas . " To pass over into Sicily , " says Pyrrhus , " and then all the Sicilians must be our subjects . " " And what does your majesty intend next ? " " Why truly , " says the king ...
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... Italy . Those that had saved themselves by flight were sent into Sicily with an order not to set foot on Italian ground during the war with Hannibal . These came to Marcellus in a body , and , falling on their knees , begged to be ...
... Italy . Those that had saved themselves by flight were sent into Sicily with an order not to set foot on Italian ground during the war with Hannibal . These came to Marcellus in a body , and , falling on their knees , begged to be ...
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... Italian city , when they saw at a distance a troop of horse riding towards them , and as it chanced , two merchant vessels sailing along the coast . Running down to the sea as fast as they could , and as their strength would allow , and ...
... Italian city , when they saw at a distance a troop of horse riding towards them , and as it chanced , two merchant vessels sailing along the coast . Running down to the sea as fast as they could , and as their strength would allow , and ...
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... Italy , and whom it would be a disgrace not to assist . 132. " Let him go then , " it was said , " where he pleases as an exile , and suffer in some other place whatever Fate has reserved for him . And let us pray that the gods visit us ...
... Italy , and whom it would be a disgrace not to assist . 132. " Let him go then , " it was said , " where he pleases as an exile , and suffer in some other place whatever Fate has reserved for him . And let us pray that the gods visit us ...
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Page 7 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
Page 52 - Upon looking up, what mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I See vultures...
Page 79 - But the answer was that nothing could be done" without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Page 42 - At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
Page 52 - is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now," said he, "this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it." "I see a bridge," said I, "standing in the midst of the tide.
Page 51 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, ' Mirza,' said he, ' I have heard thee in thy soliloquies ; follow me.
Page 53 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 135 - Praise, said the sage, with a sigh, is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband.
Page 131 - should you envy others so great an advantage ? All skill ought to be exerted for universal good ; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindness that he has received.
Page 82 - Such an extent of cultivated territory, such an amount of revenue, such a multitude of subjects, was never added to the dominion of Rome by the most successful proconsul. Nor were such wealthy spoils ever borne under arches of triumph, down the Sacred Way, and through the crowded Forum, to the threshold of Tarpeian Jove.