Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George BuchananBell and Bradfute, 1807 - 318 Seiten |
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... admirable the Force and Roar of the Earthquake which ' fhook the Failor to Pieces ! Admirable all the Variety of Ways where- in God pleafes to work on one and another ! Admirable is the whole Work of Grace for the Excellency thereof ...
... admirable the Force and Roar of the Earthquake which ' fhook the Failor to Pieces ! Admirable all the Variety of Ways where- in God pleafes to work on one and another ! Admirable is the whole Work of Grace for the Excellency thereof ...
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... ADMIRATION. SOCIETY. ON. STAGE. AND. PAGE. THE. MAS PROVIDED ITS MEMBERS with the space to do serious work and have fun without the highly gendered scrutiny that was so prevalent at Oxford. As a group, it was marked by exuberance and ...
... ADMIRATION. SOCIETY. ON. STAGE. AND. PAGE. THE. MAS PROVIDED ITS MEMBERS with the space to do serious work and have fun without the highly gendered scrutiny that was so prevalent at Oxford. As a group, it was marked by exuberance and ...
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... admirable. Almost alone of fiction's great characters, he allows life to teach him its lessons, not only via hard living and the trials of existence everyone goes through, but by a wholehearted and heroic quest—and comes out of the ...
... admirable. Almost alone of fiction's great characters, he allows life to teach him its lessons, not only via hard living and the trials of existence everyone goes through, but by a wholehearted and heroic quest—and comes out of the ...
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... admirable. This is an evaluative concept. Thus “x is admirable → x is thereby good in some (typically non-attributive) respect.” If x is admirable, it is so in virtue of some set of facts that explain this or make it so. A person's ...
... admirable. This is an evaluative concept. Thus “x is admirable → x is thereby good in some (typically non-attributive) respect.” If x is admirable, it is so in virtue of some set of facts that explain this or make it so. A person's ...
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... Admiration ; Al ' Esbahi ; Stupi- to , Con ftupore ; Alespanto . Admirable ; Admirable , Efmerveillable , merveillux , merveillable ; Raro , Me- ravigliofo ; Admirable . Paffing admirable ; Mirelifique , fort merveilleux ; molto ...
... Admiration ; Al ' Esbahi ; Stupi- to , Con ftupore ; Alespanto . Admirable ; Admirable , Efmerveillable , merveillux , merveillable ; Raro , Me- ravigliofo ; Admirable . Paffing admirable ; Mirelifique , fort merveilleux ; molto ...
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Seite 257 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite xi - Buchanan ; and he, too, seems to have been the first scholar who caught from the ancients the noble flame of republican enthusiasm. This praise is merited by his neglected though incomparable tract, ' De Jure Regni,' in which the principles of popular politics, and the maxims of a free government, are delivered with a precision, and enforced with an energy, which no former age had equalled, and no succeeding has surpassed.
Seite 293 - Latin poesy,' says this mild contemporary, 'much honoured in other countries, pleasant in conversation, rehearsing at all occasions moralities short and instructive, whereof he had abundance, inventing where he wanted. He was also religious, but was easily abused, and so facile, that he was led by every company that he haunted, which made him factious in his old days, for he spoke and wrote as those who were about him informed him; for he was become careless, following in many things the vulgar opinion;...
Seite 235 - ... if there be found in his book one sentence of a venturous edge, uttered in the height of zeal, and who knows whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit, yet not suiting with every low decrepit humor of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer of a kingdom...
Seite 161 - ANE DETECTIOUN OF THE DUINGES OF MARIE QUENE OF SCOTTES, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erie Bothwell, And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latine quhilke was written by GB With oval portrait of Mary Queen of Scots by G.
Seite 170 - ... the cat. His venerable preceptor, who might have pardoned the remark, was perhaps offended with the mode in which it was uttered : he threw aside his book with indignation, and bestowed upon the delinquent that species of scholastic discipline which is deemed most ignominious. The Countess of Mar, being attracted by the wailing which ensued, hastened to the scene of his disgrace ; and, taking the precious deposit in her arms, she demanded of Buchanan, how he presumed to lay his hand on the Lord's...
Seite 308 - Turnebus, who was associated with him in the same college, and whose decisions will not be rashly controverted, has characterized him as a man of consummate erudition. Most of the ancient writers had limited their aspiring hopes to one department of literature; and even to excel in one demands the happy perseverance of a cultivated genius.
Seite 235 - Yet if these things be not resented seriously and timely by them who have the remedy in their power, but that such...
Seite 246 - Although the bounty of nature and the instruction of your governors may at present secure you against this error, yet am I compelled to entertain some slight degree of suspicion, lest evil communication — the alluring nurse of the vices — should lend an unhappy impulse to your still tender mind, especially as I am not ignorant with what facility the external
Seite 168 - My Lady Mar was wise and sharp, and held the king in great awe, and so did Mr. George Buchanan. Mr. Peter Young was more gentle, and was...