Fifty celebrated men: their lives and trials [&c.].David C. Cook, 1862 - 311 pages |
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... battles , triumphs , and defeats , was a thing impossible for one in Dante's posi- tion . The whole life of this man was a long series of mis- fortunes . He possessed ability of a wondrously miscellane- ous nature - could do more than ...
... battles , triumphs , and defeats , was a thing impossible for one in Dante's posi- tion . The whole life of this man was a long series of mis- fortunes . He possessed ability of a wondrously miscellane- ous nature - could do more than ...
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... coming of men who choose to have them , -- London , with its thousand streams of life , its hopes and fears , and joys and sorrows , its battles , its tri- umphs , its defeats , -London , the city whither GREAT POETS . 37.
... coming of men who choose to have them , -- London , with its thousand streams of life , its hopes and fears , and joys and sorrows , its battles , its tri- umphs , its defeats , -London , the city whither GREAT POETS . 37.
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... battle - field heroes , who have rushed upon their foes as if their serried ranks were but as so inany shocks of corn , and every man's sword a sickle that must help to gather in the harvest to that great granary , the grave ; and death ...
... battle - field heroes , who have rushed upon their foes as if their serried ranks were but as so inany shocks of corn , and every man's sword a sickle that must help to gather in the harvest to that great granary , the grave ; and death ...
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... battle of Mitylene . On his return to Rome he turned his attention to oratory , and became the talk of the city , so great were the abili- ties which he displayed . His orations were admired for two qualities which are seldom found ...
... battle of Mitylene . On his return to Rome he turned his attention to oratory , and became the talk of the city , so great were the abili- ties which he displayed . His orations were admired for two qualities which are seldom found ...
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... battle . The contest was fierce and sanguinary . Charles the Mighty , having captured Eresbourg , murdered the inhabitants , pillaged and razed the principal temple of the country , and massacred its priests on their own altars ; he ...
... battle . The contest was fierce and sanguinary . Charles the Mighty , having captured Eresbourg , murdered the inhabitants , pillaged and razed the principal temple of the country , and massacred its priests on their own altars ; he ...
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Page 255 - A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
Page 279 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and...
Page 46 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 180 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 30 - I AM old and blind! Men point at me as smitten by God's frown; Afflicted and deserted of my kind, Yet I am not cast down. I am weak, yet strong; I murmur not that I no longer see; Poor, old, and helpless, I the more belong, Father Supreme! to thee.
Page 288 - Society ; the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Glasgow in 1806; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the French Institute.
Page 286 - ... with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank — all are as...
Page 28 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page ix - Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our Antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light.
Page 149 - I know not by what despondency, or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it; so that there was nothing heard, or seen, but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange consternation there was upon them...