 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 552 pages
...only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point...the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casiws old, where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...Where armies whole hnvo sunk. Milton's Par. last, Ü., 594. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether yon have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile, or else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed Furies... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the 'great Sfrbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Ctsios old, where armies whole have sunk.' I do not intend... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 340 pages
...only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point...the ' great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Cassius old, where armies whole have sunk.' I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...gathers heap, and ruin seems 590 Of ancient pile ; or else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. 595 Thither, by harpy-footed... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile : or else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effects of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies... | |
 | William Beamont - 1856 - 364 pages
...commander-in-chief. Damietta was famous also at an earlier period, in the pages of Herodotus and Lucan — " For that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk." Par. Lott II., S92. The waters of the Nile, here pouring with immense force from its Damietta mouth... | |
 | William Beamont - Egypt - 1856 - 358 pages
...commander-in-chief. Damietta was famous also at an earlier period, in the pages of Herodotus and Lucan — " For that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk." Par. Lott II., 592. The waters of the Nile, here pouring with immense force from its Damietta mouth... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...botk sides ; and there is no sure footing ENGLISH LIBERTY IN AMERICA. 137 in the middle. This point ia the " great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount...company. The question with me is, not whether you have a riyht to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is... | |
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These are deep questions where great names militate against each other; where reason is perplexed; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing... 
