Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryB. Law [and others], 1797 - 1120 páginas An extremely popular anthology of prose writings by well-known authors, collected by Vicesimus Knox and first published in 1783. |
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... most shocking circumftance of all our past conduct is really the most favour- able to our future expectations . And what is this ? That our own total indo- lence hath been the cause of all our pre- fent difficulties . For were we thus ...
... most shocking circumftance of all our past conduct is really the most favour- able to our future expectations . And what is this ? That our own total indo- lence hath been the cause of all our pre- fent difficulties . For were we thus ...
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... most conducive to your interest . And now , Athenians , the prefent junc- ture calls upon us ; we almost hear its voice , declaring loudly , that you yourselves must engage in thefe affairs , if you have the leaft attention to your own ...
... most conducive to your interest . And now , Athenians , the prefent junc- ture calls upon us ; we almost hear its voice , declaring loudly , that you yourselves must engage in thefe affairs , if you have the leaft attention to your own ...
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... most shocking and difagreeable , and of expofing ourselves in the defence of this our native territory . To cenfure , fome one may tell me , is easy , and in the power of every man : but the true counsellor fhould point out that conduct ...
... most shocking and difagreeable , and of expofing ourselves in the defence of this our native territory . To cenfure , fome one may tell me , is easy , and in the power of every man : but the true counsellor fhould point out that conduct ...
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... most inveterate public enemy . We have a weighty and vigorous decree of the fenate against you , Cataline : the commonwealth wants not wisdom , nor this house authority : but we , the confuls , I speak it openly , are wanting in our ...
... most inveterate public enemy . We have a weighty and vigorous decree of the fenate against you , Cataline : the commonwealth wants not wisdom , nor this house authority : but we , the confuls , I speak it openly , are wanting in our ...
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... most appre- hended , the cenfure incurred for having acted with firmness and courage , or that for having acted with floth and pufillani- ' mity ? When Italy fhall be laid defolate with war , her cities plundered , her dwel- lings on ...
... most appre- hended , the cenfure incurred for having acted with firmness and courage , or that for having acted with floth and pufillani- ' mity ? When Italy fhall be laid defolate with war , her cities plundered , her dwel- lings on ...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volumen2 Vicesimus Knox Vista de fragmentos - 1801 |
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Página 698 - Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.
Página 933 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Página 691 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 1043 - Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
Página 933 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Página 1045 - ... ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now, to conclude, " experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other," as poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for, it is true, " we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct ;" however, remember this ; "they that will not be counselled, cannot be helped;" and farther, that "if you will not hear reason,...
Página 1043 - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
Página 886 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Página 960 - I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ; his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Página 888 - Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem, and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation was at highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him.