Hints Towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805 - 330 páginas |
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... historian , unfold the internal prin- ciples of action , and diffect the hearts and minds of their perfonages , who develop complicated circumftances , furnish a clue to trace the labyrinth of caufes and effects , and affign to every ...
... historian , unfold the internal prin- ciples of action , and diffect the hearts and minds of their perfonages , who develop complicated circumftances , furnish a clue to trace the labyrinth of caufes and effects , and affign to every ...
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... historians themselves , like the patriots whom they celebrated , were fentenced to death , and their books condemned to the flames ; when Fannia , the incomparable wife of Helvidius , was banished , having the courage to carry into ...
... historians themselves , like the patriots whom they celebrated , were fentenced to death , and their books condemned to the flames ; when Fannia , the incomparable wife of Helvidius , was banished , having the courage to carry into ...
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... those writers who were themselves actors in the scenes which they record . The writer forbears to name living authors . Thucy- Thucydides , whofe opportunities of ob- taining information , whofe 122 CHARACTERS OF HISTORIANS .
... those writers who were themselves actors in the scenes which they record . The writer forbears to name living authors . Thucy- Thucydides , whofe opportunities of ob- taining information , whofe 122 CHARACTERS OF HISTORIANS .
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... is al- ways the most easy . The integrity and patri- otifm of Thucydides , however , were proof against the ingratitude of the republic . His work work was as impartial as if Athens had been juft CHARACTERS OF HISTORIANS . 123.
... is al- ways the most easy . The integrity and patri- otifm of Thucydides , however , were proof against the ingratitude of the republic . His work work was as impartial as if Athens had been juft CHARACTERS OF HISTORIANS . 123.
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... was fo bright an ornament , --- And with his exil'd hours enrich'd the world ! The conductor and narrator of a retreat , more more honourable and more celebrated than the victories of other 124 CHARACTERS OF HISTORIANS .
... was fo bright an ornament , --- And with his exil'd hours enrich'd the world ! The conductor and narrator of a retreat , more more honourable and more celebrated than the victories of other 124 CHARACTERS OF HISTORIANS .
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 239 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing, as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it...
Página 259 - Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need
Página 240 - Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes...
Página 240 - Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Página 217 - By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Página 95 - ... a noble exception. In no country has decency and purity, and, to the disgrace of Christian countries, let it be added, have morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent in any theatrical compositions, as in what her lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence.
Página 253 - But what philosopher, before him, after such a lesson to his pupils, could have dared to add the words which immediately follow? "The things which ye have both learned and received, and heard, and seen in me, do, and the God of peace shall be with you.
Página 247 - Whofoever drinketh of the water that I fliall give him, fhall never thirft ; but the water that I fhall give him, fhall be in him a well of water fpringing up into everlafting life.
Página 254 - ... a peace which passeth all understanding;" "a wisdom pure and peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality,