The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected from the most eminent English writersVergani, editor and Bookseller, quai de l'Horloge du Palais, no. 28, près le Pont-au-Change, 1801 - 258 páginas |
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When Socrates was asked , which of mortal men was to be accounted nearest to
the gods in happiness , he answered , « that » man who is in want of the fewest
things » . When the same philosopher was building himself a house at Athens ...
When Socrates was asked , which of mortal men was to be accounted nearest to
the gods in happiness , he answered , « that » man who is in want of the fewest
things » . When the same philosopher was building himself a house at Athens ...
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I would rather , answered he ; » people should enquire , why I have them » not ,
than complain , that I have them » . Demetrius Phalereus being informed , that the
people of Athens had destroyed all the numerous statues , they had formerly ...
I would rather , answered he ; » people should enquire , why I have them » not ,
than complain , that I have them » . Demetrius Phalereus being informed , that the
people of Athens had destroyed all the numerous statues , they had formerly ...
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thou art a disgrace to thy country » Callicratidas , the Spartan General , being
persuaded at a battle to save himself by retreating « No , answered he , the Spar
» tans can equip another fleet , should this » be lost , but I can never recover my ...
thou art a disgrace to thy country » Callicratidas , the Spartan General , being
persuaded at a battle to save himself by retreating « No , answered he , the Spar
» tans can equip another fleet , should this » be lost , but I can never recover my ...
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It is true , answered » Harley , the passions of men are tempo» rary madnesses ,
and sometimes very fatal » in their effects , w From Macedonia ' s madman to the
Swede . » » It was indeed , said the stranger , a very ▻ mad thing in Charles , to ...
It is true , answered » Harley , the passions of men are tempo» rary madnesses ,
and sometimes very fatal » in their effects , w From Macedonia ' s madman to the
Swede . » » It was indeed , said the stranger , a very ▻ mad thing in Charles , to ...
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It rains , Sir , answered the servant , with an easterly wind . - - Easterly for ever ! »
- - He made no other reply ; but shrugging up his shoulders till they almost
touched his ears , wrapped himself tight in his great coat , and disappeared . «
This is ...
It rains , Sir , answered the servant , with an easterly wind . - - Easterly for ever ! »
- - He made no other reply ; but shrugging up his shoulders till they almost
touched his ears , wrapped himself tight in his great coat , and disappeared . «
This is ...
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Página 133 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 188 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?
Página 132 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 202 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time; nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice. His children But here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Página 188 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Página 133 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 248 - Alas ! ' said I, ' man was made in vain ; how is he given away to misery and mortality, tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! ' " The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. ' Look no more,' said he, ' on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Página 187 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 243 - I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival...
Página 92 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia.
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| Título | The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected from the most eminent English writers |
| Autor | English instructor |
| Edição | 2 |
| Editora | Vergani, editor and Bookseller, quai de l'Horloge du Palais, no. 28, près le Pont-au-Change, 1801 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 25 set. 2006 |
| Num. págs. | 258 páginas |
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