Library for the people. (Division 1). The wonders of nature and art. (Division 2). (A display of the arts of life and society). (Division 3). Worthies of the United Kingdom. (Division 4) [entitled] The chimney corner companion, Выпуск 21827 |
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... distance , to free themselves from slavery , by put- ting the foreigners , their oppressors , to the sword . The Britons closing immediately with her proposal , fell in a sudden and furious manner upon the Romans in their colonies ...
... distance , to free themselves from slavery , by put- ting the foreigners , their oppressors , to the sword . The Britons closing immediately with her proposal , fell in a sudden and furious manner upon the Romans in their colonies ...
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... distance with their darts , the Britons were in hopes that the Romans , ter- rified at their great numbers , would have fled before them . But when they saw the legions advancing with short steps , without the least signs of fear in ...
... distance with their darts , the Britons were in hopes that the Romans , ter- rified at their great numbers , would have fled before them . But when they saw the legions advancing with short steps , without the least signs of fear in ...
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... distance of forty days at least , and to a certain place ; and in all the letters of summons , we will express the cause of the summons ; and the summons being thus made , the business shall go on at the day appointed , according to the ...
... distance of forty days at least , and to a certain place ; and in all the letters of summons , we will express the cause of the summons ; and the summons being thus made , the business shall go on at the day appointed , according to the ...
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... distance we de- sire . - Spying - glasses may be so formed , and so placed , that we shall be able to read the smallest letters at an incredible distance , to number even the dust and sands , and to make the sun , moon , and stars , to ...
... distance we de- sire . - Spying - glasses may be so formed , and so placed , that we shall be able to read the smallest letters at an incredible distance , to number even the dust and sands , and to make the sun , moon , and stars , to ...
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... distance , when each is in power , only in the contrary direction . Either we must conclude that these great men did not reason on these subjects , or that they succombed to prejudices , or that they set at nought the intelligence of ...
... distance , when each is in power , only in the contrary direction . Either we must conclude that these great men did not reason on these subjects , or that they succombed to prejudices , or that they set at nought the intelligence of ...
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Стр. 368 - MY loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Стр. 284 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand!
Стр. 215 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Стр. 284 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. 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.
Стр. 306 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Стр. 250 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Стр. 281 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Стр. 285 - They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms: And then the whining school-boy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.
Стр. 281 - It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Стр. 345 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.