A Grammar of the German Language; with Exercises

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Trübner & Company, 1879 - 207 páginas
 

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Página 207 - In her family, in her court, in her kingdom, she remained equally mistress: the force of the tender passions was great over her, but the force of her mind was still superior ; and the combat which her victory visibly cost her, serves only to display the firmness of her resolution, and the loftiness of her ambitious sentiments.
Página 207 - ... such uniform success and felicity. Though unacquainted with the practice of toleration, the true secret for managing religious factions, she preserved her people, by her superior prudence, from those confusions in which theological controversy...
Página 207 - Few sovereigns of England succeeded to the throne in more difficult circumstances ; and none ever conducted the government with such uniform success and felicity. Though unacquainted with the practice of toleration...
Página 206 - ... perfect character. By the force of her mind, she controlled all her more active and stronger qualities, and prevented them from running into excess : Her heroism was exempt from...
Página 207 - The wise ministers and brave warriors who flourished under her reign share the praise of her success ; but, instead of lessening the applause due to her, they make great addition to it.
Página 199 - Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed ; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Página 192 - Castilian pride to yield her the precedence. She had summoned Italian princes to prostrate themselves at her foot-stool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's coat must be cut, how long his peruke must be, whether his heels must be high or low, and whether the lace on his hat must be broad or narrow.
Página 202 - Coleridge, when a young man, was walking through the Lake district, when he one day saw the postman deliver a letter to a woman at a cottage door. The woman turned it over and examined it, and then returned it, saying she could not pay the postage, which was a shilling.
Página 202 - ... war, her able statesmen, the multitude of her profound lawyers and theologians, her philosophers, her critics, her historians and antiquaries, her poets and her orators, sacred and profane; I behold in all this something which awes and commands the imagination, which checks the mind on the brink of precipitate and indiscriminate censure, and which demands that we should very seriously examine, what and how great are the latent vices that could authorize us at once to level so spacious a fabric...
Página 207 - ... due to her, they make great addition to it. They owed all of them their advancement to her choice...

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