Acme Library of Standard Biography: Macaulay, T. Frederick the GreatAmerican Book Exchange, 1880 |
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Strana 14
... passed on . Resistance was impos- sible . The Austrian army was then neither numerous nor efficient . The small portion of that army which lay in Silesia was unprepared for hostilities . Glogau was blockaded ; Breslau opened its gates ...
... passed on . Resistance was impos- sible . The Austrian army was then neither numerous nor efficient . The small portion of that army which lay in Silesia was unprepared for hostilities . Glogau was blockaded ; Breslau opened its gates ...
Strana 24
... passed in adjudicating on questions of civil right , were more likely to form correct opinions on such questions than a prince whose attention was divided between a thousand objects and who had probably never read a law - book through ...
... passed in adjudicating on questions of civil right , were more likely to form correct opinions on such questions than a prince whose attention was divided between a thousand objects and who had probably never read a law - book through ...
Strana 25
... passing , that Frederick studiously kept up the old distinction between the nobles and the community . In specula ... passed during his hours of relaxation than by his battles or his laws . It was the just boast of Schiller , that in ...
... passing , that Frederick studiously kept up the old distinction between the nobles and the community . In specula ... passed during his hours of relaxation than by his battles or his laws . It was the just boast of Schiller , that in ...
Strana 51
... passed the winter at Breslau , in reading , writing , and preparing for the next campaign . The havoc which the war had made among his troops was rapidly repaired , and in the spring of 1758 he was again ready for the conflict . Prince ...
... passed the winter at Breslau , in reading , writing , and preparing for the next campaign . The havoc which the war had made among his troops was rapidly repaired , and in the spring of 1758 he was again ready for the conflict . Prince ...
Strana 58
... passed along in an open carriage , with Ferdinand of Brunswick at his side , the multitude saluted him with loud praises and blessing . He was moved by those marks of attachment , and re- peatedly exclaimed , " Long live my dear people ...
... passed along in an open carriage , with Ferdinand of Brunswick at his side , the multitude saluted him with loud praises and blessing . He was moved by those marks of attachment , and re- peatedly exclaimed , " Long live my dear people ...
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Strana 21 - ... in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing! Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ./Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod...
Strana 55 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Strana 44 - ... which alone is man's reasonable service. This feeling was as a celestial fountain, whose streams refreshed into gladness and beauty all the provinces of their otherwise too desolate existence. In a word, they willed one thing, to which all other things were subordinated, and made subservient ; and therefore they accomplished it. The wedge will rend rocks ; but its edge must be sharp and single : if it be double, the wedge is bruised in pieces, and will rend nothing.
Strana 68 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bag-pipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there, till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.
Strana 15 - ... with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart; and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him. In culture, in extent of view, we may stand above the speaker, or below him; but in either case, his words, if they are earnest and sincere, will find some response within us; for in spite of all casual varieties in outward rank or inward, as face answers to face, so does the heart of man to man.
Strana 26 - Abubeker, confirmed the religion of the prophet whom he was destined to succeed. By his persuasion, ten of the most respectable citizens of Mecca were introduced to the private lessons of Islam ; they yielded to the voice of reason and enthusiasm ; they repeated the fundamental creed ; " there is but one God, and Mahomet is the apostle of God...
Strana 21 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Strana 19 - As often as he is pressed by the demands of the Koreish, he involves himself in the obscure boast of vision and prophecy, appeals to the internal proofs of his doctrine, and shields himself behind the providence of God, who refuses those signs and wonders that would depreciate the merit of faith, and aggravate the guilt of infidelity...
Strana 39 - If he entered an inn at midnight, after all the inmates were ' in bed, the news of his arrival circulated from the cellar to ' the garret; and ere ten minutes had elapsed, the landlord 'and all his guests were assembled...
Strana 8 - No noble work of imagination, as far as we recollect, was ever composed by any man, except in a dialect which he had learned without remembering how or when, and which he had spoken with perfect ease before he had ever analyzed its structure.