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... wished , intimating at the same time that he preferred to choose his own wife . 8 There was in a village near the chief town of the Salassi an old man , with one only daughter , named Griselda . She was fair to look upon , and her ...
... wished , intimating at the same time that he preferred to choose his own wife . 8 There was in a village near the chief town of the Salassi an old man , with one only daughter , named Griselda . She was fair to look upon , and her ...
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... wished to worship3 these new gods ; and begged that she might receive the young maiden at her coming . The king heard gladly that his mother did not oppose his marriage , and bade her entertain the strangers as she would . So the queen ...
... wished to worship3 these new gods ; and begged that she might receive the young maiden at her coming . The king heard gladly that his mother did not oppose his marriage , and bade her entertain the strangers as she would . So the queen ...
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... wished them to give the same trust to the same care which he had now for their welfare . That they must exert all the strength and wit which they had , and try if5 Jove would not 5 grant them an escape even out of this peril . In ...
... wished them to give the same trust to the same care which he had now for their welfare . That they must exert all the strength and wit which they had , and try if5 Jove would not 5 grant them an escape even out of this peril . In ...
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... wished to go to consult the oracle of Delphi , and bound the citizens by an oath not to change any of his laws until his return . Then he went to the island of Crete , and spent the remainder of his life there . He also gave orders that ...
... wished to go to consult the oracle of Delphi , and bound the citizens by an oath not to change any of his laws until his return . Then he went to the island of Crete , and spent the remainder of his life there . He also gave orders that ...
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... wished to test the boy's endurance . However , he never stirred an inch 3 and remained motionless to the end . If we consider this well we shall feel no surprise that the Macedonians routed the Persians with such ease , when even a boy ...
... wished to test the boy's endurance . However , he never stirred an inch 3 and remained motionless to the end . If we consider this well we shall feel no surprise that the Macedonians routed the Persians with such ease , when even a boy ...
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Seite 135 - If there be but one body of legislators, it is no better than a tyranny; if there are only two, there will want a casting voice...
Seite 189 - Phaedra and Hippolitus) for a people to be so stupidly fond of the Italian opera, as scarce to give a third day's hearing to that admirable tragedy ? Music is certainly a very agreeable entertainment : but if it would take the entire possession of our ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing sense, if it would exclude arts that have a much greater tendency to the refinement of human nature ; I must confess I would allow it no better quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his commonwealth.
Seite 117 - How many things are there which* a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like: but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Seite 189 - At present our notions of music are so very uncertain that we do not know what it is we like ; only, in general, we are transported with anything that is not English. So it be of a foreign growth, let it be Italian, French, or high Dutch, it is the same thing. In short, our English music is quite rooted out, and nothing yet planted in its stead.
Seite 186 - We shall next be told," exclaims Seneca, "that the first shoemaker was a philosopher." For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker and the author of the three books "On Anger," we pronounce for the shoemaker.
Seite 158 - ... ease, and very little for the enjoyment of private pleasure ; that, either in a pacific or hostile manner, he had visited Germany nine times, Spain six times, France four times, Italy seven times, the Low...
Seite 158 - Charles then rose from his seat, and leaning on the shoulder of the prince of Orange, because he was unable to stand without support, he addressed himself to the audience, and from a paper which he held in his hand, in order to assist his memory, he recounted...
Seite 170 - Sometimes he employed all the arts of insinuation, to soothe his men. Sometimes he endeavoured to work upon their ambition or avarice, by magnificent descriptions of the fame and wealth which they were about to acquire. On other occasions, he Assumed a tone of authority, and threatened them with vengeance from their sovereign, if, by their dastardly...
Seite 186 - For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker, and the author of the three books On Anger, we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being wet ; and we doubt whether Seneca ever kept any body from being angry.