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Page 77
... enemy before they had made the necessary preparations for their defence . He had not , at this time , made due reflections on the great skill of Archimedes , nor considered that the mind of a single man is , on some occasions , far ...
... enemy before they had made the necessary preparations for their defence . He had not , at this time , made due reflections on the great skill of Archimedes , nor considered that the mind of a single man is , on some occasions , far ...
Page 78
... enemy with his darts and stones , and threw them into great disorder . When the darts passed beyond them , he then used other machines of a smaller size , and still proportioned to the distance . By these means the Romans were so ...
... enemy with his darts and stones , and threw them into great disorder . When the darts passed beyond them , he then used other machines of a smaller size , and still proportioned to the distance . By these means the Romans were so ...
Page 79
... enemy . But , amidst all the anxiety that he suffered , he could not help jesting on the inventions of Archimedes . This man , said he , employs our ships as buckets to draw water ; and , boxing about our sackbuts as if they were ...
... enemy . But , amidst all the anxiety that he suffered , he could not help jesting on the inventions of Archimedes . This man , said he , employs our ships as buckets to draw water ; and , boxing about our sackbuts as if they were ...
Page 83
... enemy stones of such an enormous size , as crushed whole bodies of them at once , and put the whole army into confusion . When they retreated from the walls , he still found means to annoy them , for , with catapults and balistæ , he ...
... enemy stones of such an enormous size , as crushed whole bodies of them at once , and put the whole army into confusion . When they retreated from the walls , he still found means to annoy them , for , with catapults and balistæ , he ...
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... enemy was not to be despised . He , accordingly , made every preparation to defend the capital . He had the good sense to give the command of the finest cavalry regiment to the Conde de la Cadena , a native Mexican , and thus secured ...
... enemy was not to be despised . He , accordingly , made every preparation to defend the capital . He had the good sense to give the command of the finest cavalry regiment to the Conde de la Cadena , a native Mexican , and thus secured ...
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Page 5 - While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Page 265 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 108 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 366 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Page 332 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 46 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Page 46 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.
Page 332 - But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment, tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 109 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 332 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.