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... passed over . They have been discussed in the Notes on Idioms ( Par . Extracts , Part I. ) , and may be found also in most grammars , to which they more naturally belong . ORATORICAL LATIN . In using the oratorical extracts for practice ...
... passed over . They have been discussed in the Notes on Idioms ( Par . Extracts , Part I. ) , and may be found also in most grammars , to which they more naturally belong . ORATORICAL LATIN . In using the oratorical extracts for practice ...
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... passed 10 away without improvement , and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided . The wretch who , after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors , continues still to blunder , and whose age has only added ...
... passed 10 away without improvement , and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided . The wretch who , after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors , continues still to blunder , and whose age has only added ...
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... passed against this defenceless 10 woman ? My lords , I pray you to pause . I do earnestly beseech you to take heed ! You are standing upon the brink of a precipice - then beware ! It will go forth your judgment , if sentence shall go ...
... passed against this defenceless 10 woman ? My lords , I pray you to pause . I do earnestly beseech you to take heed ! You are standing upon the brink of a precipice - then beware ! It will go forth your judgment , if sentence shall go ...
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... passed , had come back upon me - but now the bare possi- bility at which I have glanced , has , I acknowledge , almost unmanned me . Shall I , who stretch out to you in behalf of the son the hand whose fetters the father has struck 20 ...
... passed , had come back upon me - but now the bare possi- bility at which I have glanced , has , I acknowledge , almost unmanned me . Shall I , who stretch out to you in behalf of the son the hand whose fetters the father has struck 20 ...
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... passed the rest of the night in profound sleep . In the morning he called for one he had enfranchised , whom he had appointed to attend the senators , and bade him bring an account if they were safe ; being informed that they were all ...
... passed the rest of the night in profound sleep . In the morning he called for one he had enfranchised , whom he had appointed to attend the senators , and bade him bring an account if they were safe ; being informed that they were all ...
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Page 55 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 55 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 45 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 55 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 55 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Page 47 - We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die; die Colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it .so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim -shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have .a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country.
Page 9 - Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach I will not, sir, assume the province of determining; — but surely age may become justly contemptible if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided.
Page 47 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time, when .this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die, colonists ; die, slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.
Page 9 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 45 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land.