The Juvenile Budget Re-opened: Being Further Selections from the Writings of Doctor John Aikin ; with Copious NotesHarper, 1847 - 250 sider |
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Side 113 - But if I have taken like a king, I have given like a king. If I have subverted empires, I have founded greater. I have cherished arts, commerce, and philosophy.
Side 52 - Like verdant isles the sable waste adorn. Let India boast her plants, nor envy we The weeping amber or the balmy tree, While by our oaks the precious loads are borne, And realms commanded which those trees adorn.
Side 134 - No doubt, it is right to wish well to our country, as far as its prosperity can be promoted without injuring the rest of mankind. But wars are very seldom to the real advantage of any nation ; and when they are ever so useful or necessary, so many dreadful evils attend them, that a humane man will scarcely rejoice in them, if he considers at all on the subject.
Side 112 - Alexander, I am your captive. I must hear what you please to say, and endure what you please to inflict. But my soul is unconquered ; and if I reply at all to your reproaches, I will reply like a free man.
Side 131 - The other female then advanced. She was clothed in a close habit of brown stuff', simply relieved with white. She wore her smooth hair under a plain cap. Her whole person was perfectly neat and clean. Her look was serious, but satisfied ; and her air was staid and composed. She held in one hand a distaff; on the opposite arm hung a work-basket ; and the girdle round her waist was garnished with scissors, knitting-needles, reels, and other implements of female labour.
Side 149 - Uberto kept him some time at his house, treating him with all the respect and affection he could have shown for the son of his dearest friend. At length, having a safe opportunity of sending him to Genoa, he gave him a faithful servant for a conductor, fitted him out with every convenience, slipped a purse of gold into one hand and a letter into the other, and thus addressed him : — 13.
Side 135 - Yes—but they are men on both sides. Consider, now, that the ten thousand sent out of the world in this morning's work, though they are past feeling themselves, have left probably two persons each, on an average, to lament their loss, either parents, wives, or children. Here are then twenty thousand people made unhappy at one stroke on their account. This* however, is hardly so dreadful to think of as the condition of the wounded.
Side 147 - They used their victory with considerable rigour; and in particular, having imprisoned Uberto, proceeded against him as a traitor, and thought they displayed sufficient lenity in passing a sentence upon him of perpetual banishment, and the confiscation of all his property.
Side 45 - Martins are a kind of swallows. They feed on flies, gnats, and other insects ; and always build in towns and villages about the houses. People do not molest them, for they do good rather than harm ; and it is very amusing to view their manners and actions. See how swiftly they skim through the air in pursuit of their prey ! In the morning they are up by daybreak, and twitter about your window while you are asleep in bed ; and all day long they are upon the wing, getting food for themselves and their...
Side 65 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team ; And great Orion's more refulgent beam ; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on the ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.