The history of the Anglo-Saxons, 2. köideBaudry, 1840 |
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... true wisdom appear in all these effusions , and entitle him to be deemed the first moral essayist of our island . As this is new ground , which has been hitherto unex- plored , we will extract and translate literally several of the pas ...
... true wisdom appear in all these effusions , and entitle him to be deemed the first moral essayist of our island . As this is new ground , which has been hitherto unex- plored , we will extract and translate literally several of the pas ...
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... true happiness , though one does not think so ; for it is to be depended upon , and always promises what is true ( 5 ) . ” Boetius remarks : - [ On friendship . ' Departing fortune takes away her own creatures and leaves thine . For how ...
... true happiness , though one does not think so ; for it is to be depended upon , and always promises what is true ( 5 ) . ” Boetius remarks : - [ On friendship . ' Departing fortune takes away her own creatures and leaves thine . For how ...
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... true friends . These thou mayest now know , and thou perceivest what thou hast of them . This is of all things the dearest possession ( 1 ) . ” In another part he takes occasion to add to his original the same feelings.- " True friends ...
... true friends . These thou mayest now know , and thou perceivest what thou hast of them . This is of all things the dearest possession ( 1 ) . ” In another part he takes occasion to add to his original the same feelings.- " True friends ...
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... honours ; and when they have prepared the false things in a great mass , let them then discern the true goods of life . " Lib . iii . met . 8 . tains when you would fish ? I know indeed that CHAP . II . .29 ANGLO - SAXONS .
... honours ; and when they have prepared the false things in a great mass , let them then discern the true goods of life . " Lib . iii . met . 8 . tains when you would fish ? I know indeed that CHAP . II . .29 ANGLO - SAXONS .
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... true riches lie hid , and have no pleasure in in- quiring for them . Yet they think , that in these frail and mortal things , they may find out the true good , which is God . I know not how I can ex- press their folly so clearly , nor ...
... true riches lie hid , and have no pleasure in in- quiring for them . Yet they think , that in these frail and mortal things , they may find out the true good , which is God . I know not how I can ex- press their folly so clearly , nor ...
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Page 273 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 273 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 273 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive.
Page 260 - WORDS have been divided into nine classes: the article; the substantive, or noun; the pronoun; the adjective; the verb; the adverb; the preposition; the conjunction; and the interjection. UNDER these classes all the Saxon words may be arranged, although not with that scientific precision with which the classifications of natural history have been made. Mr. Tooke has asserted, that in all languages there are only two sorts of words necessary for the communication of our thoughts, and therefore only...
Page 54 - He was one of the first men in that country, yet he had not more than twenty horned cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty swine, and the little that he ploughed he ploughed with horses. But their wealth consists for the most part in the rent paid them by the Fins. That rent is in skins of animals, and birds' feathers, and whalebone, and in ship-ropes made of whales
Page 15 - Hence, she loves nought else but thee. She has enough of every good in this present life, but she has despised it all for thee alone. She has shunned it all, because only she has not thee also. This one thing is now wanting to her. Thine absence makes her think that all which she possesses is nothing. Hence for thy love she is wasting, and full nigh dead with tears and sorrow.
Page 339 - I am not free.' [The Shepherd says:] 'In the first of the morning I drive my sheep to their pasture and stand over them, in heat and in cold with my dogs, lest the wolves...
Page 89 - Glastonbury, and it is recorded of him that he visited Rome seven times, was very learned, mild, religious, fond of singing ; " humble to all, affable in conversation, wise in transacting business, venerable in aspect, severe in countenance, moderate even in his walk, sincere, upright, calm, temperate, and charitable.
Page 34 - ... done ! How does it now appear to thee? How do wealth and power please thee, when they are never without fear, and difficulties, and anxieties? Thou knowest that every king would be without these, and yet have power if he might. But I know that he cannot : therefore I wonder why they glory in such power.
Page 144 - The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. This is what the daily experience of courts of justice teaches. When accounts of a transaction come from the mouths of different witnesses, it is seldom that it is not possible to pick out apparent or real inconsistencies between them. These inconsistencies are studiously displayed by an adverse pleader...