The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the worldAt the University Press, 1829 - Great Britain |
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... honour of their city . In this regard they chose not any kings , but were contented with the rule of ephori . Of these there were some that thought the public safety to consist in holding their faith with the Macedonian that had ...
... honour of their city . In this regard they chose not any kings , but were contented with the rule of ephori . Of these there were some that thought the public safety to consist in holding their faith with the Macedonian that had ...
Page 546
... honoured by his countrymen at his return ; forasmuch as hereby they thought their nation to be grown terrible , not only ( as be- fore ) unto Peloponnesus , but even to Macedon itself . But this their pride was soon abated , and they ...
... honoured by his countrymen at his return ; forasmuch as hereby they thought their nation to be grown terrible , not only ( as be- fore ) unto Peloponnesus , but even to Macedon itself . But this their pride was soon abated , and they ...
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... honour , that all the blame of the begin- ning and continuing the war should rest upon themselves . Wherefore he willed his confederates to lay aside all thought of peace , and to prepare for war against the year following ; wherein he ...
... honour , that all the blame of the begin- ning and continuing the war should rest upon themselves . Wherefore he willed his confederates to lay aside all thought of peace , and to prepare for war against the year following ; wherein he ...
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... honour which he daily got by the war . But it happened , in the midst of this negotiation , that he was advertised by letters out of Macedon what a notable victory Hannibal had ob- tained against the Romans in the battle at Thrasymene ...
... honour which he daily got by the war . But it happened , in the midst of this negotiation , that he was advertised by letters out of Macedon what a notable victory Hannibal had ob- tained against the Romans in the battle at Thrasymene ...
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... honours , as sacrifices , hymns , and processions , to be cele- brated every year twice , with a priest ordained unto him for that purpose , as was accustomed unto the heroes , or men whom they thought to be translated into the number ...
... honours , as sacrifices , hymns , and processions , to be cele- brated every year twice , with a priest ordained unto him for that purpose , as was accustomed unto the heroes , or men whom they thought to be translated into the number ...
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Page 900 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Page 900 - For the rest, if we seek a reason of the succession and continuance of this boundless ambition in mortal men, we may add to that which hath been already said, that the kings and princes of the world have always laid before them the actions, but not the ends, of those great ones which preceded them. They are always transported with the glory of the one, but they never mind the misery of the other, till they find the experience in themselves. They neglect the advice of God, while they enjoy life, or...
Page 900 - It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes the account of the rich and proves him a beggar; a naked beggar which hath interest in nothing but in the gravel that fills his mouth. He holds a Glass before the eyes of the most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness;...
Page 901 - World, implying a Second and Third Volume, which I also intended and have hewn out; besides many other discouragements persuading my silence, it hath pleased God to take that glorious Prince out of the world to whom they were directed...
Page 899 - Germans, which had neither greatness nor continuance) there hath been no state fearful in the east, but that of the Turk ; nor in the west any prince that hath spread his wings far over his nest, but the Spaniard; who, since the time that Ferdinand expelled the Moors out of Granado, have made many attempts to make themselves masters of all Europe.
Page 898 - By this, which we have already set down, is seen the beginning and end of the three first monarchies of the world, whereof the founders and erecters thought that they could never have ended. That of Rome, which made the fourth, was also at this time almost at the highest. We have left it flourishing in the middle of the field, having rooted up or cut down all that kept it from the eyes and admiration of the world ; but, after some continuance...
Page 900 - ... happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which hath interest in nothing but in the gravel that fills his mouth. He holds a glass before the eyes of the most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it.
Page 898 - We have left it flourishing in the middle of thu field, having rooted up or cut down all that kept it from the eyes and admiration of the world ; but after some continuance it shall begin to lose the beauty it had ; the storms of ambition shall beat her great boughs and branches one against another, her leaves shall fall off, her limbs wither, and a rabble of barbarous nations enter the field and cut her down.
Page 777 - ... mischievous actions, and afterwards to destroy them when they have performed the mischief, was not of his own invention. All ages have given us examples of this goodly policy ; the latter having been apt scholars in this lesson to the more ancient, as the reign of Henry VIII.
Page 899 - ... they themselves would then rather have wished to have stolen out of the world without noise than to be put in mind that they have purchased the report of their actions in the world by rapine, oppression and cruelty, by giving in spoil the innocent and labouring soul to the idle and insolent...