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... escape . Alone and pensive he perceived some broken bricks in a corner of the chamber , and gradually widened the passage , till he had explored a dark and forgotten recess . Into this hole he conveyed himself and the remains of his ...
... escape . Alone and pensive he perceived some broken bricks in a corner of the chamber , and gradually widened the passage , till he had explored a dark and forgotten recess . Into this hole he conveyed himself and the remains of his ...
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... escape every other eye , and can follow them with certainty through the pathless forest . If they attack their game openly , their arrow seldom errs from the mark ; if they endea- vour to circumvent it by art , it is almost impossible ...
... escape every other eye , and can follow them with certainty through the pathless forest . If they attack their game openly , their arrow seldom errs from the mark ; if they endea- vour to circumvent it by art , it is almost impossible ...
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... escape seemed hopeless . But when he saw the wide open plain around him , and looked at his numerous and irresistible cavalry , and knew that his infantry , how- ever inferior in numbers , were far better and older soldiers than the ...
... escape seemed hopeless . But when he saw the wide open plain around him , and looked at his numerous and irresistible cavalry , and knew that his infantry , how- ever inferior in numbers , were far better and older soldiers than the ...
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... escaped , who , floating all night upon the mast , related in the morning the dismal catastrophe of this tragedy . " 45. Epimenides had been received with a reverence which ensured the success of his beneficent work , and , when it was ...
... escaped , who , floating all night upon the mast , related in the morning the dismal catastrophe of this tragedy . " 45. Epimenides had been received with a reverence which ensured the success of his beneficent work , and , when it was ...
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... escape into Capua , bearing a letter from Hannibal , which explained his purpose , and con- jured the Capuans patiently to abide the issue of his attempt for a little while . When this letter reached Capua Hannibal was already gone ...
... escape into Capua , bearing a letter from Hannibal , which explained his purpose , and con- jured the Capuans patiently to abide the issue of his attempt for a little while . When this letter reached Capua Hannibal was already gone ...
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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.