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... things are achieved only by great exertions , and glory was never the reward of sloth . If I have laboured hard and staked my all upon this under- taking , it is for the love of that renown which is the noblest recompense of man . But ...
... things are achieved only by great exertions , and glory was never the reward of sloth . If I have laboured hard and staked my all upon this under- taking , it is for the love of that renown which is the noblest recompense of man . But ...
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... thing , and how short a time , can bring the greatest fortune down to the lowest , and his pride was turned into fear , and he prayed , if it must be that in return for such great glory and victory , some evil should befall himself or ...
... thing , and how short a time , can bring the greatest fortune down to the lowest , and his pride was turned into fear , and he prayed , if it must be that in return for such great glory and victory , some evil should befall himself or ...
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... things disposed for it , a question arose , whether it were better made by day or in the night . On this the council ... thing for his retreat with great judgment . He caused the usual fires to be lighted in every part of his quarters ...
... things disposed for it , a question arose , whether it were better made by day or in the night . On this the council ... thing for his retreat with great judgment . He caused the usual fires to be lighted in every part of his quarters ...
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... thing for a man , " says Telema- chus , " to be a king ; his house presently grows rich , and he himself rises in honour . " Some advantages arising from the discharge of the kingly office have been already mentioned ; there were others ...
... thing for a man , " says Telema- chus , " to be a king ; his house presently grows rich , and he himself rises in honour . " Some advantages arising from the discharge of the kingly office have been already mentioned ; there were others ...
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... near at hand , but is not able to discern things at a distance . Discretion , the more it is discovered , gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it . Cunning , when it is once detected , loses its 42 PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION.
... near at hand , but is not able to discern things at a distance . Discretion , the more it is discovered , gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it . Cunning , when it is once detected , loses its 42 PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION.
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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.