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... given up to a melancholy , which preyed up on his health , and affected his un- derstanding . His death or inca- pacity appeared inevitable within a short time . The king of Naples , Don Carlos , was next in the order of succession . In ...
... given up to a melancholy , which preyed up on his health , and affected his un- derstanding . His death or inca- pacity appeared inevitable within a short time . The king of Naples , Don Carlos , was next in the order of succession . In ...
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... given him so great a superio- rity , no longer existed in the same persons . If his troops derived ad- vantages from a long series of ac - 1 tive service , these advantages were equally on the side of the enemy . His army had known what ...
... given him so great a superio- rity , no longer existed in the same persons . If his troops derived ad- vantages from a long series of ac - 1 tive service , these advantages were equally on the side of the enemy . His army had known what ...
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... given the French and their allies the most material ad- vantage they had acquired in the campaign ; for it secured to them the course of the Maine , and the Rhine , and made it easy to them to receive every kind of reinforcement and ...
... given the French and their allies the most material ad- vantage they had acquired in the campaign ; for it secured to them the course of the Maine , and the Rhine , and made it easy to them to receive every kind of reinforcement and ...
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... given to plunder the place ; it was given up to pillage by order of the commanders , for two days , in a very unrelenting and licentious manner . This produced loud and just com- plaints against the Prussians , and in due time , a ...
... given to plunder the place ; it was given up to pillage by order of the commanders , for two days , in a very unrelenting and licentious manner . This produced loud and just com- plaints against the Prussians , and in due time , a ...
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... given France time to breathe , she turned her attention strongly to these islands ; Guade loupe partook however less of this care than Martinico ; and yet by its natural advantages , it does not fall short of that island , either in the ...
... given France time to breathe , she turned her attention strongly to these islands ; Guade loupe partook however less of this care than Martinico ; and yet by its natural advantages , it does not fall short of that island , either in the ...
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Page 477 - This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Page 478 - All animals that bite the grass or browse the shrub, whether wild or tame, wandered in this extensive circuit, secured from beasts of prey by the mountains which confined them. On one part were flocks and herds feeding in the pastures, on another all the beasts of chase frisking in the lawns; the sprightly kid was bounding on the rocks, the subtle monkey frolicking in the trees, and the solemn elephant reposing in the shade.
Page 319 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an...
Page 478 - Such was the appearance of security and delight which this retirement afforded that they to whom it was new always desired that it might be perpetual, and, as those on whom the iron gate had once closed were never suffered to return, the effect of longer experience could not be known.
Page 479 - The birds peck the berries or the corn and fly away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds. I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer; but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me today and will grow yet more wearisome tomorrow.
Page 430 - The misery of gaols is not half their evil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair.
Page 486 - Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations.
Page 477 - From the mountains on every side, rivulets descended that filled all the valley with verdure and fertility, and formed a lake in the middle inhabited by fish of every species, and frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water.
Page 488 - We sometimes feel for another, a passion of which he himself seems to be altogether incapable; because, when we put ourselves in his case, that passion arises in our breast from the imagination, though it does not in his from the reality.
Page 485 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner.