New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... give than to receive ; and better pleased to pardon than to punish . Under the preceding kings , force generally supplied the place of jus- tice , and the people were impoverished by the rapacity of the sovereign . But Edward enforced ...
... give than to receive ; and better pleased to pardon than to punish . Under the preceding kings , force generally supplied the place of jus- tice , and the people were impoverished by the rapacity of the sovereign . But Edward enforced ...
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... give to the world an exalted notion of her naval and military power . When she came to the throne , England ranked only among the secondary king- doms ; before her death it had risen to a level with the first nations in Europe . Of this ...
... give to the world an exalted notion of her naval and military power . When she came to the throne , England ranked only among the secondary king- doms ; before her death it had risen to a level with the first nations in Europe . Of this ...
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... give the semblance of wis- dom to that which , in their own judgment , they characterized as folly . Besides irresolution , there was in Elizabeth another quality equally , perhaps more , mortifying to her counsellors and favourites ...
... give the semblance of wis- dom to that which , in their own judgment , they characterized as folly . Besides irresolution , there was in Elizabeth another quality equally , perhaps more , mortifying to her counsellors and favourites ...
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... , his issue and a new accession of empire ; yet is zealous of her name and glory ; and gives a kind of perpe- tuity to her acts ; having made little change either in the choice of ministers or the method of 72 P. III . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... , his issue and a new accession of empire ; yet is zealous of her name and glory ; and gives a kind of perpe- tuity to her acts ; having made little change either in the choice of ministers or the method of 72 P. III . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... give them their proper grace and lustre , I must enter into a history of her life ; which requires more leisure , and a richer vein than mine . To speak the truth , the only proper encomiast of this lady is time ; which , for so many ...
... give them their proper grace and lustre , I must enter into a history of her life ; which requires more leisure , and a richer vein than mine . To speak the truth , the only proper encomiast of this lady is time ; which , for so many ...
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Page 285 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 277 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, That the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
Page 216 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested.
Page 171 - ... of a personal courage equal to his best parts; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend; and as much to be apprehended where he was so as any man could deserve to be.
Page 275 - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
Page 103 - He was not a man of blood, and totally declined Machiavel's method, which prescribes, upon any alteration of government, as a thing absolutely necessary, to cut off all the heads of those, and extirpate their families, who are friends to the old one. It was confidently reported that, in the council of officers, it was more than once proposed, " that there might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as " the only expedient to secure the government " : but that Cromwell would never consent...
Page 200 - During the session, the first in, and the last out of the house of commons ; he passes from the senate to the camp ; and seldom seeing the seat of his ancestors, he is always in the senate to serve his country, or in the field to defend it.
Page 169 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them...
Page 338 - Mahomet must have been gradually stained: and the influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues which are necessary to maintain the reputation of a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion; and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled (the victorious impostor!) at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes.
Page 96 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.