The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the worldAt the University Press, 1829 - Great Britain |
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... thought that he might have made an end of the war . But it happens oft , that the violence of great armies is broken upon small towns or forts ; and not seldom , that the importunity of associates , to have their own desires fulfilled ...
... thought that he might have made an end of the war . But it happens oft , that the violence of great armies is broken upon small towns or forts ; and not seldom , that the importunity of associates , to have their own desires fulfilled ...
Page 547
... thought would be long , to get what they could for themselves in his country , as had been their manner upon the like advantages . This made the king to dismiss the Achæan ambassadors , ( whom he should have accom- panied home with his ...
... thought would be long , to get what they could for themselves in his country , as had been their manner upon the like advantages . This made the king to dismiss the Achæan ambassadors , ( whom he should have accom- panied home with his ...
Page 549
... thought to have been safe . But Philip assaulted them therein so forcibly , that he made them glad to yield the place , obtaining license to depart with their lives and arms . Having performed so much in this expedition , the king ...
... thought to have been safe . But Philip assaulted them therein so forcibly , that he made them glad to yield the place , obtaining license to depart with their lives and arms . Having performed so much in this expedition , the king ...
Page 551
... thought that he should do a notable piece of service to his prince , if he could reduce the Achæ- ans unto the same degree of subjection wherein the Mace- donians lived . To bring this to pass , during the late expe- dition he had ...
... thought that he should do a notable piece of service to his prince , if he could reduce the Achæ- ans unto the same degree of subjection wherein the Mace- donians lived . To bring this to pass , during the late expe- dition he had ...
Page 552
... thought so well of his own project , that he could not endure to lay it aside , being perhaps unable to do the king any valuable service in business of other na- ture . He purposed therefore hereafter to begin at the head , since , in ...
... thought so well of his own project , that he could not endure to lay it aside , being perhaps unable to do the king any valuable service in business of other na- ture . He purposed therefore hereafter to begin at the head , since , in ...
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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...