New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers, Band 2,Teile 3-4C. and C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... common deportment , but relaxing with a wise facetiousness , he knew how to relieve his mind and preserve his dignity ; for he never forfeited by a personal acquaintance that esteem he had acquired by his great actions . Unlearned in ...
... common deportment , but relaxing with a wise facetiousness , he knew how to relieve his mind and preserve his dignity ; for he never forfeited by a personal acquaintance that esteem he had acquired by his great actions . Unlearned in ...
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... common custom of close and covert dealing , men had it ever inwardly suspect , as many well counterfeited jewels make the true mistrusted . " He appears to have been the first of our kings since the accession of Henry III . who confined ...
... common custom of close and covert dealing , men had it ever inwardly suspect , as many well counterfeited jewels make the true mistrusted . " He appears to have been the first of our kings since the accession of Henry III . who confined ...
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... common - place , as for grave and prudent observation . He was certainly religious , both in his temper and behaviour . And as he could see clearly , for those times , into superstition ; so he would be blinded now and then through ...
... common - place , as for grave and prudent observation . He was certainly religious , both in his temper and behaviour . And as he could see clearly , for those times , into superstition ; so he would be blinded now and then through ...
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... common people . In the country they had access to her at all times ; nei- ther their rudeness nor importunity appeared to offend her she received their petitions with an air of pleasure , thanked them for their expres → sions of ...
... common people . In the country they had access to her at all times ; nei- ther their rudeness nor importunity appeared to offend her she received their petitions with an air of pleasure , thanked them for their expres → sions of ...
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... common interest of Europe would not allow the first ; lest the ambition of Spain , being uncurbed , should fly out , as affairs then stood , to the prejudice of the kingdoms and states of Christendom ; and the latter was prevented by ...
... common interest of Europe would not allow the first ; lest the ambition of Spain , being uncurbed , should fly out , as affairs then stood , to the prejudice of the kingdoms and states of Christendom ; and the latter was prevented by ...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive and ... Richard Alfred Davenport Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration affairs ambition appeared arts attention authority character Charlemagne church Cicero conduct court crown death delight Demosthenes dignity Dodington duke duke of Burgundy duke of Guise earl elegant eloquence eminent enemies England English equal esteem excellent eyes fame father favour favourites felicity fortune France Gazna genius GILBERT STUART glory happy Henry Henry VIII honour HORACE WALPOLE human humour indulged James judgment justice king kingdom knew laws learning liberty LINGARD lived Lord Lord Byron Louis Louis XI manners memory ment merit mind minister monarch nation nature ness never noble occasion opinion orator parliament passion peace perhaps person Petrarch pleasure political possessed praise prejudices prince qualities queen racter reign religion respect ROBERT GUISCARD Scotland seemed sentiments sions Sir Robert Walpole Soame Jenyns sovereign speeches spirit subjects superior talents temper thing thought throne tion vices vigour virtues whilst wisdom
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 275 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Seite 285 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Seite 277 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, That the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
Seite 216 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested.
Seite 294 - Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel: his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere.
Seite 200 - ... for himself of profit, diversion, or relaxation. During the session, the first in, and the last out of the House of Commons, he passes from the senate to the camp ; and seldom seeing the seat of his ancestors, he is always in the senate to serve his country, or in the field to defend it.
Seite 96 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.
Seite 338 - Mahomet must have been gradually stained: and the influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues which are necessary to maintain the reputation of a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion; and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled (the victorious impostor!) at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes.
Seite 36 - Had he been a private man, he would have been termed proud. But in a wise Prince, it was but keeping of distance, which indeed he did towards all; not admitting any near or full approach, either to his power, or to his secrets, for he was governed by none.
Seite 342 - ... consciousness of superior worth; in the pursuit of greatness he was never arrested by the scruples of justice, and seldom moved by the feelings of humanity ; though not insensible of fame, the choice of open or clandestine means, was determined only by his present advantage. The surname of Guiscard...