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Page 694
... necessarily made him great ; a I will inviolably maintain it . fame and success in
war , superior to what Hooke . Rome had ever known in the most cele . brated of
her generals . He had tri§ 18. Scipio's Answer . umphed , at three several times ...
... necessarily made him great ; a I will inviolably maintain it . fame and success in
war , superior to what Hooke . Rome had ever known in the most cele . brated of
her generals . He had tri§ 18. Scipio's Answer . umphed , at three several times ...
Page 795
He was brought bound ing to be instantly known , and publicly acto the fame
tribunal , and acquitted every knowledged by his foriner friend . Here other
person of any partnership in his guilt . he stood the whole day amongst the crowd
...
He was brought bound ing to be instantly known , and publicly acto the fame
tribunal , and acquitted every knowledged by his foriner friend . Here other
person of any partnership in his guilt . he stood the whole day amongst the crowd
...
Page 856
Call over those millions by name , and nature , ak them one by one , of what
country they We shall see the fame virtues and vices , are : how many will you
find , who from Aowing from the same principles , but varied different parts of the
earth ...
Call over those millions by name , and nature , ak them one by one , of what
country they We shall see the fame virtues and vices , are : how many will you
find , who from Aowing from the same principles , but varied different parts of the
earth ...
Page 857
such is the thing called glory among us ! birth , is herself represented as rejoicing
that “ To discerning men this fame is mere air , all generations should call her ble
sed , “ and what they despise , if not fhun . ” To be convinced of the great ...
such is the thing called glory among us ! birth , is herself represented as rejoicing
that “ To discerning men this fame is mere air , all generations should call her ble
sed , “ and what they despise , if not fhun . ” To be convinced of the great ...
Page 1096
The dorsal fin is armed with a remark The colour of the back is duky ; the able
frong spine , Tharply ferrated , with dor al and ventral fins of the fame colour :
which it can inflict a very severe wound the head , fides , and belly , of a greenith
on the ...
The dorsal fin is armed with a remark The colour of the back is duky ; the able
frong spine , Tharply ferrated , with dor al and ventral fins of the fame colour :
which it can inflict a very severe wound the head , fides , and belly , of a greenith
on the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 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,...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
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| Title | Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Volume 2 Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Vicesimus Knox |
| Author | Vicesimus Knox |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | B. Law [and others], 1797 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
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