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... Speech on Conciliation with America - Página 41de Edmund Burke - 1907 - 83 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Milton - 1855 - 202 páginas
...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 - 1855 - 564 páginas
...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... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 páginas
...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 in the middle. This point is •That Serbonian bog Betwixt Damieta and Mount Cassius old, Where armies whole have sunk. Milton's... | |
| William Beamont - 1856 - 358 páginas
...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... | |
| William Beamont - 1856 - 364 páginas
...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... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 páginas
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 664 páginas
...them, and mention Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian1 bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore,2 and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed furies... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 páginas
...thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authoritios lift up their h«ads on both sides ; mid there is no sure footing in the middle. This point...the " great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Uasius old, where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in... | |
| Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 398 páginas
...disputed question of right, Mr. / Burke declined to enter on the abstract merits of the dispute — " That great Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, ! . Where armies whole have sunk." But he wholly gave up the exercise of this supposed right, and thereby laid the ground for an amicable... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 páginas
...gathers heap, and ruin seems 590 Of aneient pile ; all else deep snow and iee, A gulf profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parehing air 570. gross, ie large ; gros, Fr. 577. Slgx : ffTvfeia, to hate. — Aeheron: &XOfJKU,... | |
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