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... virtue or contempt of life ? All that the authors here insinuate is , that if not the one , it must be the other ; if not honour , it is flattery ; if not virtue , it must be contempt . But we must proceed to the note of exclamation ...
... virtue or contempt of life ? All that the authors here insinuate is , that if not the one , it must be the other ; if not honour , it is flattery ; if not virtue , it must be contempt . But we must proceed to the note of exclamation ...
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... Virtue Man's Highest Interest . I FIND myself existing upon a little spot , surround- بية ed every way by an immense unknown expansion Where am I ? What sort of a place do I inhabit ? Is it exactly accommodated in every instance to my ...
... Virtue Man's Highest Interest . I FIND myself existing upon a little spot , surround- بية ed every way by an immense unknown expansion Where am I ? What sort of a place do I inhabit ? Is it exactly accommodated in every instance to my ...
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... virtue into piety ? Not only honour and justice , and what Isowe to man , is my interest ; but gratitude also , acquiest cence , resignation , adoration , and all It owe to this great polity , and its greater Governor , our common ...
... virtue into piety ? Not only honour and justice , and what Isowe to man , is my interest ; but gratitude also , acquiest cence , resignation , adoration , and all It owe to this great polity , and its greater Governor , our common ...
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... virtue and generous affec- tion , than for skill and gallantry in his profession , A more pure or a more exalted character certainly has not yet appeared upon that scene which Mr Scott has sought to illustrate with the splendor of his ...
... virtue and generous affec- tion , than for skill and gallantry in his profession , A more pure or a more exalted character certainly has not yet appeared upon that scene which Mr Scott has sought to illustrate with the splendor of his ...
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... virtue , friendship , benevolence , love of one's country , and the like , he looked upon them as terms invented by the wise , to keep in awe and impose upon the weak . " My Lord , " said Pythias , with a firm voice and noble aspect ...
... virtue , friendship , benevolence , love of one's country , and the like , he looked upon them as terms invented by the wise , to keep in awe and impose upon the weak . " My Lord , " said Pythias , with a firm voice and noble aspect ...
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Página 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Página 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Página 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Página 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Página 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Página 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Página 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Página 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...