Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory NoticesClarendon Press, 1869 - 400 pages |
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... lived much with the Constable de Montmorenci and with Casaubon . During the campaigns of 1610 and of 1614 , he served with distinction under the Prince of Orange , and he then travelled through Germany to Italy . From 1619 he acted with ...
... lived much with the Constable de Montmorenci and with Casaubon . During the campaigns of 1610 and of 1614 , he served with distinction under the Prince of Orange , and he then travelled through Germany to Italy . From 1619 he acted with ...
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... lived in London and afterwards , was angling , and in 1653 he published ' The Complete Angler , or Contemplative Man's Recreation . ' He lived to a good old age , and died in December , 1683 , at Winchester , in the house of Dr. Hawkins ...
... lived in London and afterwards , was angling , and in 1653 he published ' The Complete Angler , or Contemplative Man's Recreation . ' He lived to a good old age , and died in December , 1683 , at Winchester , in the house of Dr. Hawkins ...
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... lived near to our own time , whom I also take to have been ornaments to the art of Angling . The first is Dr. Nowel , sometime dean of the cathedral church of St. Paul , in London , where his monument stands yet undefaced ; a man that ...
... lived near to our own time , whom I also take to have been ornaments to the art of Angling . The first is Dr. Nowel , sometime dean of the cathedral church of St. Paul , in London , where his monument stands yet undefaced ; a man that ...
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... lived , so he died , in devout meditation and prayer ; and in both so zealously , that it became a religious question , ' Whether his last ejaculations or his soul did first enter heaven ? ' And now Mr. Hooker became a man of sorrow and ...
... lived , so he died , in devout meditation and prayer ; and in both so zealously , that it became a religious question , ' Whether his last ejaculations or his soul did first enter heaven ? ' And now Mr. Hooker became a man of sorrow and ...
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... lived so many years ; and every day and every minute we make an escape from those thousands of dangers and deaths that encompass us round about , and such escapings we must reckon to be an extraordinary fortune , and therefore that it ...
... lived so many years ; and every day and every minute we make an escape from those thousands of dangers and deaths that encompass us round about , and such escapings we must reckon to be an extraordinary fortune , and therefore that it ...
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Page 314 - IF a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 11 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 94 - God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 294 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 303 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Page 295 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Page 1 - MY father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the nttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 302 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 240 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page 363 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.