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Stran 23
... King of kings . " NAPOLEON . LACLOS , the author of a well known THE POCKET MAGAZINE . 23.
... King of kings . " NAPOLEON . LACLOS , the author of a well known THE POCKET MAGAZINE . 23.
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... kings to descend to the remotest posterity . After having reduced Persia by the force of his arms , and taken possession of ... king must practise to avoid being deceived , and to be able to know the real worth of the men by whom he is ...
... kings to descend to the remotest posterity . After having reduced Persia by the force of his arms , and taken possession of ... king must practise to avoid being deceived , and to be able to know the real worth of the men by whom he is ...
Stran 26
gine that we will refuse to be instructed in the most useful science for kings ? Tell me , then , what are the most certain methods by which we may judge of the true value of men ? " My Lord , replied Morad , whilst your courtiers were ...
gine that we will refuse to be instructed in the most useful science for kings ? Tell me , then , what are the most certain methods by which we may judge of the true value of men ? " My Lord , replied Morad , whilst your courtiers were ...
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... kings , became immediately prepos sessed in favour of the merits and talents of this man , whom I have discovered to be but an adventurer , des- titute of any talent but that of a capacity for intrigue . He is already become rich and ...
... kings , became immediately prepos sessed in favour of the merits and talents of this man , whom I have discovered to be but an adventurer , des- titute of any talent but that of a capacity for intrigue . He is already become rich and ...
Stran 33
... kings ; but where can he find such a man ? How will he be sure of him , and be able to distinguish truth from falsehood , when the speaker has so much interest in deceiving ? After having for a long time reflected on the means he should ...
... kings ; but where can he find such a man ? How will he be sure of him , and be able to distinguish truth from falsehood , when the speaker has so much interest in deceiving ? After having for a long time reflected on the means he should ...
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Stran 272 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds...
Stran 291 - Be this," she cried, as she wing'd her flight, " My welcome gift at the Gates of Light ; Though foul are the drops that oft distil On the field of warfare, blood like this, For liberty shed, so holy is. It would not stain the purest rill, That sparkles among the bowers of bliss...
Stran 231 - But that loveliness, ever in motion, which plays Like the light upon autumn's soft shadowy days, Now here and now there, giving warmth as it flies From the lips to the cheek, from the cheek to the eyes, Now melting in mist and now breaking in gleams, Like the glimpses a saint has of heaven in his dreams...
Stran 176 - The first tabernacle to Hope we will build, And look for the sleepers around us to rise ; The second to Faith, which ensures it fulfilled, And the third to the Lamb of the great sacrifice Who bequeathed us them both when he rose to the skies.
Stran 175 - To the pleasures which Mirth can afford ; — The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ; But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.
Stran 175 - Methinks it is good to be here ; If Thou wilt, let us build— but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses appear, But the shadows of eve that encompass the gloom, The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb.
Stran 176 - Death, to whom monarchs must bow ? Ah, no ! for his empire is known ; And here there are trophies enow : Beneath, the cold dead, and around, the dark stone, Are the signs of a Sceptre that none may disown.
Stran 71 - ... intermission : sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds near the horizon ; at others, it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all in darkness, when in an instant it re-appears in vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced by some nearer peal which bursts on the ear with such a sudden and tremendous crash as can scarcely fail to strike...
Stran 98 - The springing trout in speckled pride; The salmon, monarch of the tide; The ruthless pike, intent on war; The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And edges flowered with eglantine.
Stran 318 - ... and on the east by the usual argillaceous soil of the country; the main body may perhaps be estimated at three miles in circumference; the depth cannot be ascertained, and no subjacent rock or soil can be discovered.