Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and ViceMozley, 1808 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 28 筆
第 vi 頁
... desired . If it had been thought prudent to have recourse to feigned characters , these volumes might have been great- ly enlarged ; but as fiction , however well it may be adapted , only lessens the force of the doctrine or duty to be ...
... desired . If it had been thought prudent to have recourse to feigned characters , these volumes might have been great- ly enlarged ; but as fiction , however well it may be adapted , only lessens the force of the doctrine or duty to be ...
第 14 頁
... desired him not to tell any body of it till he himself was a father . ROLLIN'S ANT . HIST . CAMBALUS , a young gentleman of character and for- tune , in the city of Mulgeatum , being one day out a coursing , was way - laid , and very ...
... desired him not to tell any body of it till he himself was a father . ROLLIN'S ANT . HIST . CAMBALUS , a young gentleman of character and for- tune , in the city of Mulgeatum , being one day out a coursing , was way - laid , and very ...
第 15 頁
... desired Cornelia to let her see her jewels also . Cornelia dexterously turned the conversation to another subject , to wait the return of her sons , who were gone to the public schools . When they returned , and enter- ed their mother's ...
... desired Cornelia to let her see her jewels also . Cornelia dexterously turned the conversation to another subject , to wait the return of her sons , who were gone to the public schools . When they returned , and enter- ed their mother's ...
第 21 頁
... desired a private conference ; and as soon as he saw himself alone with the tribune , he drew out his dagger , and presented it to his breast , and declared he would stab him that moment , if he did not swear in the form he should ...
... desired a private conference ; and as soon as he saw himself alone with the tribune , he drew out his dagger , and presented it to his breast , and declared he would stab him that moment , if he did not swear in the form he should ...
第 36 頁
... desired him for their ruler . He urged , that he alone was the law- ful successor to the crown which he refused , and that their father could not infringe the laws of the kingdom ; that he had been betrayed by an extravagant fondness ...
... desired him for their ruler . He urged , that he alone was the law- ful successor to the crown which he refused , and that their father could not infringe the laws of the kingdom ; that he had been betrayed by an extravagant fondness ...
常見字詞
admiration affection Agesistrata Alexander ambition Antigonus army Artabazanes Astyages beauty body brother Brutus Carthaginians Cassander Clitus command conduct consul courage court cried Croesus crown cruel cruelty Cyrus Damophilus Darius daughter death desired endeavoured enemy Epaminondas esteem example Falisci father favour force fortune friendship Gauls gave give glory gods Greece hands happy hath heart HIST honour human hundred husband Julius Cæsar king king's kingdom lady laws Leonidas liberty lives lord Lysimachus Macedon manner master ment mind mother nature never noble obliged occasion officers parents passion Persians person Phocion pleasure PLUT Plutarch Polybius present prince prisoners punishment queen regard Roman Rome says Scipio senate sent SENTIMENTS slaves soldiers Solon soon suffer Tarquinii tears tenderness ther thing thou thought thousand Thrasybulus throne tion took troops tyrant victory virtue whole wife word XENOPH Xerxes young youth
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第 183 頁 - And it is pity that commonly more care is had, yea, and that amongst very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
第 14 頁 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
第 56 頁 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
第 188 頁 - Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
第 240 頁 - Pale, cold, and half speechless in the arms of his Damon, Pythias replied in broken accents, " Fatal haste ! — Cruel impatience! — What envious powers have wrought impossibilities in your favour? But I will not be wholly disappointed. Since I cannot die to save, I will not survive you.
第 227 頁 - They were accompanied by three hundred and sixty five youths, agreeable to the number of days in a year, clothed in purple robes. Afterwards came a chariot consecrated to Jupiter/ drawn by white horses, and followed by a courser of a prodigious size, to whom they gave the name of the sun's horse ; and the equerries were dressed in white, each...
第 152 頁 - ... assured the pope that all was transacted by the express will and command of the king, it was immediately decreed that the pope should march with his cardinals to the church of St. Mark, and in the most solemn manner give thanks to God for so great a blessing conferred on the See of Rome, and the Christian world...
第 275 頁 - Then accosting the Spaniard, he said, " Christian, the person you have killed is my son : his body is now in my house. You ought to suffer ; but you have eaten with me, and I have given you my faith, which must not be broken.
第 273 頁 - Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene: Some, rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again.
第 238 頁 - This the tyrant intended peremptorily to refuse, by granting it, as he conceived, on the impossible conditions of his procuring some one to remain as hostage for his return, under equal forfeiture of life. Pythias heard the conditions, and did not wait for an application upon the part of Damon : he instantly offered himself as security for his friend; which being accepted, Damon was immediately set at liberty.