The Letters of Pliny the Younger,: With Observations on Each Letter; and an Essay on Pliny's Life, Addressed to Charles Lord BoyleJames Bettenham, 1752 - 450 |
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Strona 47 - The next, in place and punishment, are they Who prodigally throw their souls away; Fools, who, repining at their wretched state, And loathing anxious life, suborn'd their fate. With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live; Their pains and poverty desire to bear, To view the light of heav'n, and breathe the vital air: But fate forbids; the Stygian floods oppose, And with nine circling streams the captive souls inclose.
Strona 214 - So likewife ye, when ye ihall have done all thofe things which are commanded you, fay, We are unprofitable fervants : we have done that which. was our duty to do.
Strona 336 - Distrust, and darkness, of a future state, Make poor Mankind so fearful of their Fate. Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
Strona 267 - But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay ; yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils; 37 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan ; and the land was defiled with blood.
Strona 292 - ... be preferred, who had many children ; and any perfon might ftand for a dignity, before the ufual time, if he had as many children as he wanted years of being capable to hold the dignity. And farther, that in the city of Rome, whoever had three children, in other parts of Italy four, and in the provinces five, mould be excufed from all troublefome offices in th
Strona 249 - On the eighth day he sent the people away : and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
Strona 316 - Not far from the baths is the staircase leading to the enclosed portico, three rooms intervening. One of these looks out upon the little area with the four planetrees round it, the other upon the meadows, and from the third you have a view of several vineyards, so that each has a different one, and looks towards a different point of the heavens. At the upper end of the enclosed portico, and indeed taken off from it, is a room that looks out upon the hippodrome, the vineyards, and the mountains ;...
Strona lxxiii - Orrery for rural sequesterment and home-born, happiness, as we gather from his own reiterated expressions. In presenting his translation of Pliny to his eldest son, he says, " I esteem it but as a trifle, the amusement of my leisure hours ; the offspring of winter...
Strona 33 - IT is a hard and nice fubjeft for a man to write of himfelf; it grates his own heart to fay any thing of difparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praife from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is fufficient for my own contentment, that they have preferved me from being fcandalous pr remarkable en the defeftive fide.
Strona 10 - Where, in a plain defended by a wood, Crept through the matted grass a crystal flood, By which an alabaster fountain stood: And on the margin of the fount was laid, Attended by her slaves, a sleeping maid.