Lives Enshrined in Language: Or, Proper Names which Have Become Common Parts of SpeechWalter Scott publishing Company, 1922 - 191 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 36 - Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 140 - A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Página 21 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Página 16 - I shall conclude this discourse with an explanation of a proverb, which by vulgar error is taken and used when a man is reduced to an extremity, whereas the propriety of the maxim is to use it when you would say there is plenty, but you must make such a choice as not to hurt another who is to come after you.
Página 139 - And gloomy darkness roll'd about his head. The fleet in view, he twang'd his deadly bow, And hissing fly the feather'd fates below. On mules and dogs the infection first began ;" And last, the vengeful arrows fix'd in man.
Página 94 - I paid 15/. in a single year for repairs of carriage-springs on the pavement of London; and I now glide without noise or fracture, on wooden pavements. I can walk, by the assistance of the police, from one end of London to the other, without molestation; or, if tired, get into a cheap and active cab, instead of those cottages on wheels, which the hackney coaches were at the beginning of my life.
Página 102 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure as with poets, nor for advantage as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake.
Página 183 - O ye, the wise who think, the wise who reign, From growing commerce loose her latest chain, And let the fair white-wing'd peacemaker fly To happy havens under all the sky, And mix the seasons and the golden hours ; Till each man find his own in all men's good, And all men work in noble brotherhood, Breaking their mailed fleets and armed towers, And ruling by obeying Nature's powers, And gathering all the fruits of earth and crown'd with all her flowers.
Página 153 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of the Astronomical Society of London.
Página 27 - ... them well proved. One was for stealing a horse of a person unknown : and the evidence amounted to no more than that a horse was seen feeding upon the heath near his shiel (which is a cottage made in open places of turf and flag) and none could tell who was the owner of it. In short, the man. escaped much to the regret of divers gentlemen who thought he deserved to be hanged ; and that was enough. While the judge at the trial discoursed of the evidence and its defects, a Scotch gentleman upon...