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... success , perpetually to feel that in such a career , al- though a failure is disgraceful , a victory is inglorious ; ‹ Vincere inglorium — atteri sordidum . ' These are the sentiments of Agricola and the words of Tacitus , and bespeak ...
... success , perpetually to feel that in such a career , al- though a failure is disgraceful , a victory is inglorious ; ‹ Vincere inglorium — atteri sordidum . ' These are the sentiments of Agricola and the words of Tacitus , and bespeak ...
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... success in such an undertaking . We wish we could impose a few years of silence and meditation , or at least of hesitation , on our young gentle- men just emerging from their collegiate discipline . The years which succeed should rather ...
... success in such an undertaking . We wish we could impose a few years of silence and meditation , or at least of hesitation , on our young gentle- men just emerging from their collegiate discipline . The years which succeed should rather ...
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... successful warrior as a captive ; and the consequence of her degraded condition was , that the full extent of the character of man , comprehending all the resources and varieties of its faculties , was not developed . The footing on ...
... successful warrior as a captive ; and the consequence of her degraded condition was , that the full extent of the character of man , comprehending all the resources and varieties of its faculties , was not developed . The footing on ...
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... success at the Court of Versailles , and which almost realizes one part of the above picture : rigours , however , are out of the question in any thing that relates to Versailles . It was said that Muley Ismael , Emperor of Morocco ...
... success at the Court of Versailles , and which almost realizes one part of the above picture : rigours , however , are out of the question in any thing that relates to Versailles . It was said that Muley Ismael , Emperor of Morocco ...
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... successful , and impotent where they would be most likely to do good . Chenier says of her , that , in one of her works , she praises the excellence of Cardinal Richelieu's heart ; the sole virtue , he observes , which several ...
... successful , and impotent where they would be most likely to do good . Chenier says of her , that , in one of her works , she praises the excellence of Cardinal Richelieu's heart ; the sole virtue , he observes , which several ...
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Página 212 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.
Página 382 - Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
Página 309 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Página 428 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Página 22 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Página 15 - My hopes of being remembered in my line With my land's language. If too fond and far These aspirations in their scope incline — If my fame should be, as my fortunes are, Of hasty growth and blight, and dull Oblivion bar...
Página 20 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Página 19 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Página 30 - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," as a proof that the Coliseum was entire, when seen by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth century. A notice on the Coliseum may be seen in the " Historical Illustrations,
Página 371 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.