John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773-1833: A Biography Based Largely on New Material, المجلد 2G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922 |
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الصفحة 487 - By thine agony and bloody sweat; by thy cross and passion; by thy precious death and burial; by thy glorious resurrection and ascension; and by the Coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord deliver us'; he commented at much length; telling in
الصفحة 504 - or disordered minds have conceived that they were cut off from its promises of life to come. " 'Ask and ye shall have; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you." This was my only support and stay during years of misery and darkness; and, just as I had
الصفحة 695 - Bard, Sage and Tribune! in himself All moods of mind contrasting;— The tenderest wail of human woe The scorn like lightning blasting; The pathos which from rival eyes Unwilling tears could summon; The stinging taunt, the fiery burst Of hatred scarcely human;— Mirth sparkling like a diamond shower
الصفحة 321 - In life's last scenes, what prodigies surprise! Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show!
الصفحة 350 - It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, to see the
الصفحة 520 - At regina gravi jamdudum saucia cura Vulnus alit venis et caeco carpitur igni Multa Viri Virtus animo multusque recursat Gentis honos. Haerent infixi pectore vultus Verbaque: nee placidam membris dat cura quietem.
الصفحة 520 - On such a night as this stood Dido with a willow in her hand upon the wild sea banks, and waved her love to come again to Carthage.
الصفحة 292 - of the value of this world and its contents that I would not give the strength and health of one of my negro men for the wisdom of Solomon and the wealth of Croesus and the power of Caesar. '' Though Solomon, with a thousand wives, To get a wise successor strives; But one, and he a fool, survives.'"
الصفحة 19 - And I say again, if we are to submit to such usurpations, give me George Grenville, give me Lord North for a master. It is in this point of view that I most deprecate the bill. If from the language I have used, any gentleman shall believe I am not as much attached to this Union as
الصفحة 643 - but I have been, as I thought, on the very verge and brink of his disease; but I prayed to God to save me, and not to suffer me to fall a prey to the arts and wiles of Satan, at the very moment I was seeking his reconcilement. "I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak the words of truth and soberness. I