The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives ... of the Most Eminent Men ... of Great Britain and Ireland ; from the Reign of Henry VIII. to George II. Both Inclusive ...E. Dilly, 1762 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 40
עמוד 31
... party of horfe but during this interval , that lord himfelf burnt the caftle to the ground , though it was his principal feat , and laid waste the country round it with greater outrage and de- Aruction , than even the zeal of his ...
... party of horfe but during this interval , that lord himfelf burnt the caftle to the ground , though it was his principal feat , and laid waste the country round it with greater outrage and de- Aruction , than even the zeal of his ...
עמוד 38
... party to Roanok , expect- ing to find the fifteen men that were left there ; but they fought them in vain . They after- wards found that feveral of them had been murdered by the favages , and the reft driven to a remote part of the ...
... party to Roanok , expect- ing to find the fifteen men that were left there ; but they fought them in vain . They after- wards found that feveral of them had been murdered by the favages , and the reft driven to a remote part of the ...
עמוד 139
... party accufed upon each article , and replies of the commons . To give a general idea of the thing , it will fuffice to fay , in two words , that the impeachment running wholly upon the earl of Strafford's pretended intention to fubvert ...
... party accufed upon each article , and replies of the commons . To give a general idea of the thing , it will fuffice to fay , in two words , that the impeachment running wholly upon the earl of Strafford's pretended intention to fubvert ...
עמוד 164
... party : and , when our minds judge by reflection of ourselves , they are more fubject to error : and , though , for the matter itself , my judgment be in fome things fixed , and not acceffible by any man's judgment that goeth not my way ...
... party : and , when our minds judge by reflection of ourselves , they are more fubject to error : and , though , for the matter itself , my judgment be in fome things fixed , and not acceffible by any man's judgment that goeth not my way ...
עמוד 168
... parties in literature ; as , in his po- litical conduct , he ftood fair with all the par- ties in the nation . The admirers of antiquity were charmed with this difcourfe , which feems exprefly calculated to justify their admiration ...
... parties in literature ; as , in his po- litical conduct , he ftood fair with all the par- ties in the nation . The admirers of antiquity were charmed with this difcourfe , which feems exprefly calculated to justify their admiration ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 128 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
עמוד 10 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
עמוד 21 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
עמוד 65 - Beg my dead body which, living, was denied thee, and either lay it at Sherborne, if the land continue, or in Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more — time and death call me away.
עמוד 138 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...
עמוד 20 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
עמוד 65 - ... accusers; and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom ! My dear wife, farewell! Bless my poor boy, pray for me, and let my good God hold you. both in his arms ! Written with the dying hand of sometime thy husband, but now, alas! overthrown...
עמוד 9 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
עמוד 63 - I trust my blood will quench their malice that have thus cruelly murdered me, and that they will not seek also to kill thee and thine with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct thee I know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial; and I plainly perceive that my death was determined from the first day.
עמוד 5 - I cannot determine; but it is plain he had much reading at least, if they will not call it learning. Nor is it any great matter, if a man has knowledge, whether he has it from one language or from another.