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... army and the gown ; When pensions fall to gild the wanton's kiss , And patch the reputation of a miss ; How shall this pen exhaust my honest rage , And render all its glow upon the page ; How speak my zeal in virtue's sacred cause , My ...
... army and the gown ; When pensions fall to gild the wanton's kiss , And patch the reputation of a miss ; How shall this pen exhaust my honest rage , And render all its glow upon the page ; How speak my zeal in virtue's sacred cause , My ...
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... army of 500,000 veterans upon the Oder and the Vistula to attack Russia : this war drew more than 600 millions out of his treasury , and 2000 pieces of artillery from his arsenals . The Poles supplied him with 80,000 men , and 100 ...
... army of 500,000 veterans upon the Oder and the Vistula to attack Russia : this war drew more than 600 millions out of his treasury , and 2000 pieces of artillery from his arsenals . The Poles supplied him with 80,000 men , and 100 ...
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... army expences have doubled . What , then , will be the deficit for the year 1813 ? -There no longer exists a Continental System against England : it is , in fact , destroyed . 9. The battles of Smolensk and Borodino , of Krasnoi , of ...
... army expences have doubled . What , then , will be the deficit for the year 1813 ? -There no longer exists a Continental System against England : it is , in fact , destroyed . 9. The battles of Smolensk and Borodino , of Krasnoi , of ...
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... army , hitherto so formidable -but this was not all ; the iron - chain was broke that bound degraded monarchs in his train ; -the tocsin of insurrection was sounded in Germany ; Holland flew to li- berty , their old government , and ...
... army , hitherto so formidable -but this was not all ; the iron - chain was broke that bound degraded monarchs in his train ; -the tocsin of insurrection was sounded in Germany ; Holland flew to li- berty , their old government , and ...
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... army against his enemy , and was de- feated . A person speedily came to the King , and in- formed him , that his troops had obtained the victory , and he was very much delighted . Two days after , accounts of the defeat arrived . The ...
... army against his enemy , and was de- feated . A person speedily came to the King , and in- formed him , that his troops had obtained the victory , and he was very much delighted . Two days after , accounts of the defeat arrived . The ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 233 - O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Seite 233 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Seite 182 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 205 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Seite 122 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Seite 233 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother : but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him. and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Seite 233 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Seite 2 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Seite 2 - ... they might do if left entirely to themselves. There is no set purpose, no straining at a point. The observations are suggested by the passing scene — the gusts of passion come and go like sounds of music borne on the wind.
Seite 204 - The French revolutionists complained of every thing; they refused to reform any thing; and they left nothing, no nothing at all unchanged. The consequences are before us, - not in remote history; not in future prognostication; they are about us; they are upon us.