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... course pursued by his father , who blamed him severely for adopting extreme views , and reminded him of many illustrious men who were not the less wise , or the less virtuous , for having used animal food in moderation . In order to ...
... course pursued by his father , who blamed him severely for adopting extreme views , and reminded him of many illustrious men who were not the less wise , or the less virtuous , for having used animal food in moderation . In order to ...
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... course now was remarkably similar in some import- ant respects , to that pursued under somewhat similar circumstances by Lord Bacon , nearly sixteen centuries later . All our readers are familiar with the gross adula- tion in which the ...
... course now was remarkably similar in some import- ant respects , to that pursued under somewhat similar circumstances by Lord Bacon , nearly sixteen centuries later . All our readers are familiar with the gross adula- tion in which the ...
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... course that flatly contradicted those moral precepts , the essential importance of which he took so much pains to impress on others . It is beyond question that he struggled hard to restrain the vicious propensities of Nero ; and he was ...
... course that flatly contradicted those moral precepts , the essential importance of which he took so much pains to impress on others . It is beyond question that he struggled hard to restrain the vicious propensities of Nero ; and he was ...
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... course of events , her hatred was reciprocated by Seneca . So stung was Agrippina with jealousy , that she had the rashness to threaten Nero with annulling what she had done in his favour , and nominating Britannicus as the lawful heir ...
... course of events , her hatred was reciprocated by Seneca . So stung was Agrippina with jealousy , that she had the rashness to threaten Nero with annulling what she had done in his favour , and nominating Britannicus as the lawful heir ...
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... course , but through fear ; an opinion which is sustained by Tacitus , who twice remarks that Nero had attempted to poison Seneca , but failed . * But the conspiracy of Piso afforded the tyrant a pretext to dispose of him in another way ...
... course , but through fear ; an opinion which is sustained by Tacitus , who twice remarks that Nero had attempted to poison Seneca , but failed . * But the conspiracy of Piso afforded the tyrant a pretext to dispose of him in another way ...
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Página 355 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Página 14 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
Página 113 - And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
Página 113 - For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Página 208 - ENGEL'S (CARL) Music of the Most Ancient Nations ; particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, And Hebrews; with Special Reference to the Discoveries in Western Asia and in Egypt. With 100 Illustrations. 8vo. 16s. ENGLAND (HISTORY or) from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713—83. By LORD MAHON (now Earl Stanhope). Library Edition, 7 Vols. 8vo. 93«.
Página 55 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 53 - ... by the Hindus, we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians ; who, though as much inclined as other nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of a foreign people, unanimously agree, that the game was imported from the west of India, together with the charming fables of Vishnusarman in the sixth century of our era.
Página 14 - And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan ; is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Página 91 - ... the fruits of their industry, and driven, in the midst of an inclement season, to seek a shelter for themselves and their helpless families where chance may guide them?
Página 91 - It is no secret, that a persecution, accompanied with all the circumstances of ferocious cruelty, which have in all ages distinguished that dreadful calamity, is now raging in this country.