Selections from English prose writers, for translation into Greek and Latin [signed H.W.P.].Henry Wright Phillott 1849 |
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第 6 頁
... hope ! O greedy desire of vain honours , dignities , and riches ! O what inconstant trust and assurance is in rolling fortune ! Wherefore the prophet said full well , Thesaurizat , et ignorat , cui congregabit ea , who is certain that ...
... hope ! O greedy desire of vain honours , dignities , and riches ! O what inconstant trust and assurance is in rolling fortune ! Wherefore the prophet said full well , Thesaurizat , et ignorat , cui congregabit ea , who is certain that ...
第 27 頁
... hope of ease : now , thou shalt never want furies , so long as thou hast thyself . - Yea , what if thou would'st run from thyself ? Thy soul may fly from thy body : thy conscience will not fly from thy soul , nor thy sin from thy ...
... hope of ease : now , thou shalt never want furies , so long as thou hast thyself . - Yea , what if thou would'st run from thyself ? Thy soul may fly from thy body : thy conscience will not fly from thy soul , nor thy sin from thy ...
第 48 頁
... do , or enjoy their gardens , without often looking abroad to see how other matters play , what motions in the state , and what invitations they may hope for into other scenes . life , and this 48 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE .
... do , or enjoy their gardens , without often looking abroad to see how other matters play , what motions in the state , and what invitations they may hope for into other scenes . life , and this 48 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE .
第 49 頁
Henry Wright Phillott. hope for into other scenes . life , and this part of it more particularly , were the inclination of my youth itself , so they are the pleasure of my age ; and I can truly say that , among many great employments ...
Henry Wright Phillott. hope for into other scenes . life , and this part of it more particularly , were the inclination of my youth itself , so they are the pleasure of my age ; and I can truly say that , among many great employments ...
第 89 頁
... hope of amendment where men are pleased with their ruin , and whilst they think laziness is a desirable character . Whether it be that they like the state itself , or that they think it gives them a new lustre when they do exert ...
... hope of amendment where men are pleased with their ruin , and whilst they think laziness is a desirable character . Whether it be that they like the state itself , or that they think it gives them a new lustre when they do exert ...
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第 98 頁 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
第 160 頁 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
第 24 頁 - The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
第 83 頁 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
第 80 頁 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed.
第 124 頁 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
第 86 頁 - I directed my sight as I was ordered, and {whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
第 14 頁 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess without confession that His 'glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach.
第 86 頁 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among VoL. I.— 15 many other feathered creatures several little winged boys that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
第 40 頁 - Falkland, a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war than that single loss, i" must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.