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Strona 385
... soon after to fall into the hands of their enemies , and were sent prisoners to Constantinople . No sooner , therefore , did Mello hear of the arrival of these adventurers , thau he engaged them to assist him ; and , having drawn ...
... soon after to fall into the hands of their enemies , and were sent prisoners to Constantinople . No sooner , therefore , did Mello hear of the arrival of these adventurers , thau he engaged them to assist him ; and , having drawn ...
Strona 386
... soon after defeated a second time at Cannæ ; and in a third engage ment , near Ofanto , the army of Doceanus was entirely routed , and himself obliged to fly to Bari . On this he was ordered to return to his command in Sicily , and ...
... soon after defeated a second time at Cannæ ; and in a third engage ment , near Ofanto , the army of Doceanus was entirely routed , and himself obliged to fly to Bari . On this he was ordered to return to his command in Sicily , and ...
Strona 387
... soon as he had taken possession of it ; and , by refusing the assistance he had promised to Charles , obliged him to delay his expedition . In the beginning of 1280 Procida returned to Arragon , and , by showing the letters from the ...
... soon as he had taken possession of it ; and , by refusing the assistance he had promised to Charles , obliged him to delay his expedition . In the beginning of 1280 Procida returned to Arragon , and , by showing the letters from the ...
Strona 388
... Soon after this Charles sent an embassy to Peter , accusing him of perfidy , in invading his dominions in time of peace ; and , according to some , challenged him at the same time to decide the matter by single combat : but Peter deter ...
... Soon after this Charles sent an embassy to Peter , accusing him of perfidy , in invading his dominions in time of peace ; and , according to some , challenged him at the same time to decide the matter by single combat : but Peter deter ...
Strona 391
... soon told . The Austrians crossed the Po on the 28th of January , and marched to Naples . The principal opposition to this march seems to have consisted in an empty vote of the representatives , never to make peace with an enemy whilst ...
... soon told . The Austrians crossed the Po on the 28th of January , and marched to Naples . The principal opposition to this march seems to have consisted in an empty vote of the representatives , never to make peace with an enemy whilst ...
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Strona 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Strona 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Strona 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Strona 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Strona 417 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Strona 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Strona 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Strona 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Strona 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Strona 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.