Broadstone of HonorLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1826 - 311 páginas |
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... death ; " and there is a bold presumption , a kind of vapour- ing insolence , a bad taste , a pedantry , and an inhu- manity , in the attacks made upon the ancient wis- dom , which kindle in the breast of the ordinary and vulgar men who ...
... death ; " and there is a bold presumption , a kind of vapour- ing insolence , a bad taste , a pedantry , and an inhu- manity , in the attacks made upon the ancient wis- dom , which kindle in the breast of the ordinary and vulgar men who ...
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... death as its only security . " I was not ignorant , " says Cicero to Brutus in the beginning of his first book , De Finibus , " how much censure our labour would be sure to meet with . ” " Nam qui- busdam , et iis quidem non admodum ...
... death as its only security . " I was not ignorant , " says Cicero to Brutus in the beginning of his first book , De Finibus , " how much censure our labour would be sure to meet with . ” " Nam qui- busdam , et iis quidem non admodum ...
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... death ; " Sed quo fata trahunt , virtus secura seque- tur . " Yes , the virtue which begins and ends with obedience to the will of God . This it is which has supported saints and heroes , and which will again support saints and heroes ...
... death ; " Sed quo fata trahunt , virtus secura seque- tur . " Yes , the virtue which begins and ends with obedience to the will of God . This it is which has supported saints and heroes , and which will again support saints and heroes ...
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Kenelm Henry Digby. death till the violence is overpassed , and the great water - floods subside , and he can stray amid shat- tered columns , and violated tombs , and desecrated monuments of piety ; amid the grey walls of abbeys , and ...
Kenelm Henry Digby. death till the violence is overpassed , and the great water - floods subside , and he can stray amid shat- tered columns , and violated tombs , and desecrated monuments of piety ; amid the grey walls of abbeys , and ...
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... death of Godchilde his first wife , an English woman who died on the march in Marasia , did not scruple to marry the daughter of Tafrok , an Arminian prince who held many strong castles on Taurus , who was his own enemy and that of the ...
... death of Godchilde his first wife , an English woman who died on the march in Marasia , did not scruple to marry the daughter of Tafrok , an Arminian prince who held many strong castles on Taurus , who was his own enemy and that of the ...
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Página 248 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Página 223 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Página 288 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Página 70 - tis the hour of prayer ! Ave Maria ! 'tis the hour of love ! Ave Maria ! may our spirits dare Look up to thine and to thy Son's above...
Página 175 - Ye brown o'erarching groves, That contemplation loves, Where willowy Camus lingers with delight ! Oft at the blush of dawn I trod your level lawn, Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, With Freedom by my side, and soft-eyed Melancholy.
Página 200 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Página 51 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below In service high and anthems clear As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 36 - I am, I confess, naturally inclined to that which misguided zeal terms superstition : my common conversation I do acknowledge austere, my behaviour full of rigour, sometimes not without morosity; yet at my devotion I love to use the civility of my knee, my hat, and hand, with all those outward and sensible motions which may express or promote my invisible devotion.
Página 58 - Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus, Te prophetarum laudabilis numerus, Te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.
Página 300 - But hark ! the portals sound, and pacing forth With solemn steps and slow, High potentates, and dames of royal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go...