Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley1883 |
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... Cæsar so advanced , that his name yet , after sixteen hundred years , lasteth in the highest honour ? And mark but even Cæsar's own words of the forenamed Sylla , ( who in that only did honestly , to put down his dishonest tyranny ) ...
... Cæsar so advanced , that his name yet , after sixteen hundred years , lasteth in the highest honour ? And mark but even Cæsar's own words of the forenamed Sylla , ( who in that only did honestly , to put down his dishonest tyranny ) ...
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... Cæsar , and Livie . " To the head - mastership of this school , Richard Knolles was invited . He was the third who occupied that office , and the first who abided in it long . He spent the rest of his life among his boys and his books ...
... Cæsar , and Livie . " To the head - mastership of this school , Richard Knolles was invited . He was the third who occupied that office , and the first who abided in it long . He spent the rest of his life among his boys and his books ...
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... Cæsar , Decimus Brutus had obtained that interest , as he set him down in his testament for heir in remainder after his nephew . And this was the man that had power with him to draw him forth to his death ; for when Cæsar would have ...
... Cæsar , Decimus Brutus had obtained that interest , as he set him down in his testament for heir in remainder after his nephew . And this was the man that had power with him to draw him forth to his death ; for when Cæsar would have ...
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... Cæsar . - Lord St. Alban . -I have ever observed it to have been the office of a wise patriot , among the greatest affairs of the state , to take care of the Commonwealth of Learning . For schools , they are the seminaries of state ...
... Cæsar . - Lord St. Alban . -I have ever observed it to have been the office of a wise patriot , among the greatest affairs of the state , to take care of the Commonwealth of Learning . For schools , they are the seminaries of state ...
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... Cæsar than James or Elizabeth . Beggars cozen him with musty things which they have raked from dung- hills , and he preserves their rags for precious relics . He loves no library but where there are more spiders ' volumes than authors ...
... Cæsar than James or Elizabeth . Beggars cozen him with musty things which they have raked from dung- hills , and he preserves their rags for precious relics . He loves no library but where there are more spiders ' volumes than authors ...
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Página 261 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 129 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 137 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Página 261 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. "Seven years, my lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Página 261 - World," that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 339 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Página 221 - I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Página 221 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Página 221 - I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length said I, ' Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.' The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing...
Página 131 - We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force. God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.