Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, 2. köideB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 pages |
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Page 614
... fear of confufion , when their hands were to be raised . Porrexerunt manus , faith Cicero ( pro Flacco ) Pfephifma natum eft . And , to conftitute this Pfephifma or decree , fix thousand citizens at leaft were re- quired . When it was ...
... fear of confufion , when their hands were to be raised . Porrexerunt manus , faith Cicero ( pro Flacco ) Pfephifma natum eft . And , to conftitute this Pfephifma or decree , fix thousand citizens at leaft were re- quired . When it was ...
Page 615
... fear ; that if once remifs , not any thing can hap- Fen agreeable to your defires : witnefs the then powerful arms of Lacedemon , which a juft attention to your interefts enabled you to vanquish : and this man's late in folent attempt ...
... fear ; that if once remifs , not any thing can hap- Fen agreeable to your defires : witnefs the then powerful arms of Lacedemon , which a juft attention to your interefts enabled you to vanquish : and this man's late in folent attempt ...
Page 629
... fear , that partly by conceffions , where they may be feasonable ; partly by menaces , ( and his menaces may be believed ) and partly by rendering us and our abfence fufpected ; he may tear from us fomething of the last importance , and ...
... fear , that partly by conceffions , where they may be feasonable ; partly by menaces , ( and his menaces may be believed ) and partly by rendering us and our abfence fufpected ; he may tear from us fomething of the last importance , and ...
Page 630
... fear , and what they have already fuffered . My countrymen ! let not fo favourable an opportunity escape you : do not repeat that error which hath been fo often fatal to you . For when , at our return from affifting the Euboeans ...
... fear , and what they have already fuffered . My countrymen ! let not fo favourable an opportunity escape you : do not repeat that error which hath been fo often fatal to you . For when , at our return from affifting the Euboeans ...
Page 631
... fear , Athe- nians , that as they who inconfiderably bor- row money upon high intereft , after a fhort- lived affluence are deprived of their own fortunes ; fo we , by this continued indo- lence , by confulting only our eafe and plea ...
... fear , Athe- nians , that as they who inconfiderably bor- row money upon high intereft , after a fhort- lived affluence are deprived of their own fortunes ; fo we , by this continued indo- lence , by confulting only our eafe and plea ...
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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 791 - When I went up, continued the corporal, into the lieutenant's room, which I did not do till the expiration of the ten minutes, he was lying in his bed, with his head raised upon his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and a clean white cambric handkerchief beside it.
Page 1041 - 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 884 - ... whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same...
Page 698 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 791 - Scripture, said my uncle Toby; and I will shew it thee to-morrow: In the mean time we may depend upon it, Trim, for our comfort, said my uncle Toby, that God Almighty is so good and just a governor of the world, that if we have but done our duties in it, — it will never be enquired into, whether we have done them in a red coat or a black one: I hope not; said the corporal But go on, Trim, said my uncle Toby, with thy story.
Page 842 - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
Page 698 - 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.
Page 789 - I will answer for thee, cried my uncle Toby : and thou shalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glass of sack thyself, — and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more, if they will do him good. Though I am persuaded...
Page 1022 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.