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Side 305 - Aeschylus et modicis instravit pulpita tignis et docuit magnumque loqui nitique cothurno. 280 successit vetus his comoedia, non sine multa laude; sed in vitium libertas excidit et vim dignam lege regi : lex est accepta chorusque turpiter obticuit sublato iure nocendi. nil intemptatum nostri liquere poetae 285 nec minimum meruere decus vestigia Graeca ausi deserere et celebrare domestica facta vel qui praetextas vel qui docuere togatas.
Side 377 - Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth than the solitary extent of the Campagna of Rome under evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for a moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this wild and wasted plain.
Side 5 - An Act for amending an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty, intituled " An Act for the better administration of justice in His Majesty's Privy Council, and to extend its jurisdiction and powers.
Side 316 - Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Side 322 - ... in men of business, a degenerate and inglorious sloth, has made him flag and languish in his course ? This is the object of our inquiry. If our member's conduct can bear this touch, mark it for sterling. He may have fallen into errors; he must have faults; but our error is greater, and our fault is radically ruinous to ourselves, if we do not bear, if we do not even applaud, the whole compound and mixed mass of such a character. Not to act thus is folly — I had almost said it is impiety. He...
Side 377 - A dull purple poisonous haze stretches level along the desert, veiling its spectral wrecks of massy ruins, on whose rents the red light rests, like dying fire on defiled altars ; the blue ridge of the Alban Mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green, clear, quiet sky.
Side 299 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Side 38 - We do hereby, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors Grant and Declare that these Our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in...
Side 370 - It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are incorporated. Whatever renders human nature amiable or respectable, whatever engages love or confidence, is sacrificed at its shrine. In instructing us to consider a portion of our fellow-creatures as the proper objects of enmity, it removes, as far as they are concerned, the basis of all society, of all civilization and virtue ; for the basis of these is the good-will due to every individual of...
Side 12 - ... patent, relation being thereunto had may more fully and at large appear. Now know ye that we have revoked and determined, and by these presents do revoke and determine, the said recited letters patent, and every clause, article, and thing therein contained. And, further, know you that we. reposing...

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