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... spirit , by saying : " Ye know not what ye ask . " She understood too well that the wings of Icarus are but the instruments of self destruction to the simpletons who try to soar away upon them ; " that it is better to be of an humble spirit ...
... spirit , by saying : " Ye know not what ye ask . " She understood too well that the wings of Icarus are but the instruments of self destruction to the simpletons who try to soar away upon them ; " that it is better to be of an humble spirit ...
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... spirit , for he was quickly seized with a desire to join the Augusta forces and proceed to the seat of war . The idea was simply ridiculous , and its absurdity was explained to him by his mother . Inexpressibly disappointed , chagrined ...
... spirit , for he was quickly seized with a desire to join the Augusta forces and proceed to the seat of war . The idea was simply ridiculous , and its absurdity was explained to him by his mother . Inexpressibly disappointed , chagrined ...
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... spirit the spirit of war in his bosom ? He was at once taken prisoner and borne home in the most inglorious manner . Finding on his return , his mother ill and in tears , he was deeply grieved at his behaviour ; his conscience , indeed ...
... spirit the spirit of war in his bosom ? He was at once taken prisoner and borne home in the most inglorious manner . Finding on his return , his mother ill and in tears , he was deeply grieved at his behaviour ; his conscience , indeed ...
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... spirit that he never failed to soothe and comfort them . It is not surprising , then , that he exerted the most salutary influence in the Academy . At this school he obtained a good classical and mathematical education , and was ...
... spirit that he never failed to soothe and comfort them . It is not surprising , then , that he exerted the most salutary influence in the Academy . At this school he obtained a good classical and mathematical education , and was ...
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... spirits , and improvised verses and epigrams . The first efforts of his genius , in fact , seemed to be in the direction of the muses . Unre- strained at this early day by the coldness of argument and the confinement of rules , his mind ...
... spirits , and improvised verses and epigrams . The first efforts of his genius , in fact , seemed to be in the direction of the muses . Unre- strained at this early day by the coldness of argument and the confinement of rules , his mind ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 231 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 210 - But wherefore do you hold me here so long ? What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently : For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Página 9 - Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Página 89 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences...
Página 238 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained; "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 42 - I will bear my sorrows like a man, But I must also feel them as a man. I cannot but remember such things were, And were most dear to me.
Página 59 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Página 244 - The whole South is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia, after a long struggle, has been drawn, and though I recognize no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed, yet in my own person I had to meet the question, whether I should take part against my native State.
Página 231 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more.
Página 35 - Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, they are the life, the soul of reading : take them out of this book, for instance, you might as well take the book along with them ; one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it : restore them to the writer, — he steps forth like a bridegroom, — bids All hail ; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.