The Eastern, Or Old World: Embracing Ancient and Modern History, Հատոր 2

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Hurlbut, Williams & Company, 1862

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Էջ 390 - A few in fear, Flying away from him whose boast it was That the grass grew not where his horse had trod, Gave birth to Venice. Like the waterfowl, They built their nests among the...
Էջ 184 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Էջ 248 - From such a school it might have been expected that a young man who wanted neither abilities nor amiable qualities would have come forth a great and good king. Charles came forth from that school with social habits, with polite and engaging manners, and with some talent for lively conversation, addicted beyond measure to sensual indulgence, fond of sauntering and of frivolous amusements, incapable of selfdenial and of exertion, without faith in human virtue or in human attachment, without desire...
Էջ 115 - In the name of the French people, the President of the Republic decrees : 1. The National Assembly is dissolved. 2. Universal suffrage is reestablished ; the law of 31st of May is repealed.
Էջ 322 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Էջ 364 - Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honour ; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humour; and more wealth than pleasure; and where a man would chuse nu ther to travel, than to live ; shall find more things to observe than desire ; and more persons to esteem than to love.
Էջ 390 - Before her pass'd, as in an awful dream, The mightiest of the mighty. What are these, Clothed in their purple ? O'er the globe they fling Their monstrous shadows ; and, while yet we speak, Phantom-like, vanish with a dreadful scream ! What — but the last that styled themselves the авва!
Էջ 27 - The victim by turns of selfish and sanguinary factions, of petty tyrants, and of foreign invaders, Italy has fallen like a star from its place in heaven ; she has seen her harvests trodden down by the horses of the stranger, and the blood of her children wasted in quarrels not their own ; Conquering or conquered, in the indignant language of her poet, still alike a slave ;~\- a long retribution for the tyranny of Rome.
Էջ 243 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Էջ 206 - ... of the Romish worship, though removed, had at least given place to order and decency: the distinctive habits of the clergy, according to their different ranks, were continued: no innovation was admitted merely from spite and opposition to former usage...

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