Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volume 41812 |
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Common terms and phrases
admiration affable affection agreeable ambition appeared arts ASPASIO avarice Bayes Boil Cćsar CHARACTER OF EDWARD CHARACTER OF HENRY Chesterfield Cicero conduct courage court crown danger death dignity earl elegant enemies England enterprises equally errours Europe father favour favourite fortune France give glory greatest hand happy heart Henry VIII honour house of lords human Hume Iago JULIUS CĆSAR justice king kingdom LADY JANE GREY laws learning lence less liberty lived lord LORD TOWNSHEND mankind manners ment mind minister monarch narch nation nature neral never noble oppression passions perfect person philosopher Plato pleasure political Pompey Pope possessed prince Pythias qualities queen racter reason reign religion rendered Richard III Roger Ascham Rome Scotland seemed Sir John soldiers soul sovereign spirit Sterl subjects talents temper thee thing thou thought throne tion truth vices vigour violence virtue Voltaire writers
Popular passages
Page 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Page 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Page 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Page 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Page 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Page 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.