Selections from English prose writers, for translation into Greek and Latin [signed H.W.P.].Henry Wright Phillott 1849 |
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... remained with me , lamenting sore your former misery and exile . But now , which of the two should I rather choose , either to continue a mourner in this pitiful state , seeing you again restored to your kingdom , having overcome your ...
... remained with me , lamenting sore your former misery and exile . But now , which of the two should I rather choose , either to continue a mourner in this pitiful state , seeing you again restored to your kingdom , having overcome your ...
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... remained perfectly stupid , the blood flowing out from the wound , till , after a violent trembling , he dropped down stone dead . Memoirs of Captain Carleton . II . My father , a wise and grave man DANIEL DEFOE . 65.
... remained perfectly stupid , the blood flowing out from the wound , till , after a violent trembling , he dropped down stone dead . Memoirs of Captain Carleton . II . My father , a wise and grave man DANIEL DEFOE . 65.
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... remained untouched and unimpaired . History of England , chap . xliv . II . The Irish , everywhere intermingled with the English , needed but a hint from their leaders and priests to begin hostilities against a people whom they hated on ...
... remained untouched and unimpaired . History of England , chap . xliv . II . The Irish , everywhere intermingled with the English , needed but a hint from their leaders and priests to begin hostilities against a people whom they hated on ...
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... remained without cultivation , with few inhabitants , and almost without a name . But the manners of the Venetian fugitives , their arts and their government , were gradually formed by their new situation ; and one of the epistles of ...
... remained without cultivation , with few inhabitants , and almost without a name . But the manners of the Venetian fugitives , their arts and their government , were gradually formed by their new situation ; and one of the epistles of ...
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... remained under water , drawing their breath through a hollow cane : and a river or lake was often the scene of their unsuspected ambuscade . But these were the achievements of spies or stragglers ; the military art was unknown to the ...
... remained under water , drawing their breath through a hollow cane : and a river or lake was often the scene of their unsuspected ambuscade . But these were the achievements of spies or stragglers ; the military art was unknown to the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration appear Appius Aristomenes army Athenians Attica barbarous beautiful began better BISHOP ATTERBURY blessings body Cæsar called cause CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL Claudius Cleombrotus conduct countenance courage death decemvir delight desire divine doth Ecclesiastical Polity empire enemies England enjoy Epaminondas evil eyes father favour feeling fortune friends Genius glory greatest hand happy hath heard heart History honour hope human Julius Cæsar justice kind king kingdom labour laws less liberty live look Lord mankind manner Marcus Aurelius ment mind miseries nation nature never noble observed Odoacer passed passions peace Peninsular War person Phocion pleasure poets princes reason religion Ricimer Roman Roman Empire Rome ruin scene shew side society soldiers sorrow soul Sparta Spectator spirit suffer temper things THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thou thought Translation truth unto vices Virginius virtue whole wisdom
Pasajes populares
Página 98 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 160 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 24 - The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Página 83 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Página 80 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed.
Página 124 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Página 86 - I directed my sight as I was ordered, and {whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Página 14 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess without confession that His 'glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach.
Página 86 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among VoL. I.— 15 many other feathered creatures several little winged boys that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Página 40 - Falkland, a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war than that single loss, i" must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.