Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volume 2B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 pages |
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Page 613
... ftill predominant . They forgot that Philip might renew his attempt ; and thought they had pro- vided fufficiently for their fecurity , by pofting a body of troops at the en- trance of Attica , under the command of Menelaus , a ...
... ftill predominant . They forgot that Philip might renew his attempt ; and thought they had pro- vided fufficiently for their fecurity , by pofting a body of troops at the en- trance of Attica , under the command of Menelaus , a ...
Page 614
... ftill continued , out of refpect to the reasonable and decent purpose for which the law was originally enacted . When a speaker has delivered his fentiments , he generally called on an officer , appointed for that purpose , to read his ...
... ftill continued , out of refpect to the reasonable and decent purpose for which the law was originally enacted . When a speaker has delivered his fentiments , he generally called on an officer , appointed for that purpose , to read his ...
Page 616
... ftill the measures I propofe will have their ufe : as his fears may keep him quiet , when he knows we are prepared ( and this he will know , for there are too too many among ourselves who inform him of every thing ) : or , if he fhould ...
... ftill the measures I propofe will have their ufe : as his fears may keep him quiet , when he knows we are prepared ( and this he will know , for there are too too many among ourselves who inform him of every thing ) : or , if he fhould ...
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... ftill extending his ambitious views , poffibly , he may at last call you forth , unless you have renounced the name of Athenians . To me it is aftonishing , that none of you look back to the beginning of this war , and confider that we ...
... ftill extending his ambitious views , poffibly , he may at last call you forth , unless you have renounced the name of Athenians . To me it is aftonishing , that none of you look back to the beginning of this war , and confider that we ...
Page 630
... ftill neglecting the prefent , and imagining our future in- terefts will not demand our care : we have aggrandized our enemy , we have raised him to a degree of eminence , greater than any king of Macedon hath ever yet en- joyed . Now ...
... ftill neglecting the prefent , and imagining our future in- terefts will not demand our care : we have aggrandized our enemy , we have raised him to a degree of eminence , greater than any king of Macedon hath ever yet en- joyed . Now ...
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Popular passages
Page 691 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 791 - When I went up, continued the corporal, into the lieutenant's room, which I did not do till the expiration of the ten minutes, he was lying in his bed, with his head raised upon his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and a clean white cambric handkerchief beside it.
Page 1041 - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
Page 884 - ... whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same...
Page 698 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 791 - Scripture, said my uncle Toby; and I will shew it thee to-morrow: In the mean time we may depend upon it, Trim, for our comfort, said my uncle Toby, that God Almighty is so good and just a governor of the world, that if we have but done our duties in it, — it will never be enquired into, whether we have done them in a red coat or a black one: I hope not; said the corporal But go on, Trim, said my uncle Toby, with thy story.
Page 842 - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
Page 698 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 789 - I will answer for thee, cried my uncle Toby : and thou shalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glass of sack thyself, — and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more, if they will do him good. Though I am persuaded...
Page 1022 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.