Jeff Steinport

All delights are vain; but that most vain / Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. Love's L. The children were playing at “going to Moscow” in a carriage made of chairs and invited her to go with them. From the room in which Nicholas was sleeping came the sound of his even breathing, every slightest tone of which was familiar to his wife. Toward midnight she went to Natásha’s room fingering the key in her pocket. The Allies commenced immediately a cannonade with a hundred pieces of cannon on the ramparts, which did great execution; but the French soon returned the compliment, and about eight o'clock made a furious attack on the villages of Lare and Neer-Winden. A locomotive is moving. Nor was the liberality of that illustrious citizen confined to the walls of Athens. For the most part, and especially in these latter ages, persons are culled out for this work from amongst the common people, upon the sole consideration of well-speaking, as if we were to learn...

Her twin-sons, Castor and (Polydeuces or) Pollux, [15] were [34] renowned for their tender attachment to each other. Now lie down. When God would punish a land, he deprives its rulers of wisdom. Ger. Perhaps this is because I stood close to the Conservatives on account of my traditions, but was not a Conservative for party reasons. Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes. 1 Hen. However, I entered for some moments into the admiration of thy goodness, O my God. “How am I to understand you, mon père? ” said the princess, growing pale and then blushing. Pétya no longer thought of presenting his petition. I, however, was fighting no battle, and the siege of Vicksburg had drawn from Rosecrans' front so many of the enemy that his chances of victory were much greater than they would be if he waited until the siege was over, when these troops could be returned.

A person dressed like a Covenanter is crying, "See here, see here!" The emblematical figure of "Justice," blind, and with her attributes of sword and scales, has her altar deserted. And when he shall once find him begin to apprehend, and shall represent to him a Bradamante or an Angelica—[Heroines of Ariosto.]—for a mistress, a natural, active, generous, and not a viragoish, but a manly beauty, in comparison of a soft, delicate, artificial simpering, and affected form; the one in the habit of a heroic youth, wearing a glittering helmet, the other tricked up in curls and ribbons like a wanton minx; he will then look upon his own affection as brave and masculine, when he shall choose quite contrary to that effeminate shepherd of Phrygia. Whoever gave these the title of Golden Epistles had another kind of opinion of them than I have. But his unforgiving temper, stimulated by avarice, indulged a spirit of revenge, where there was no room for apprehension. L'imposs...

Most, although not all, of the frauds occurred in connection with the Post-Office Department and the Land Office. 8 The experience of so many princes, whom he had esteemed or endured, from the vain follies of Elagabalus to the useful rigor of Aurelian, taught him to form a just estimate of the duties, the dangers, and the temptations of their sublime station. They placed their new sovereign, whom they served and despised, in the centre of their ranks, surrounded him on every side with their shields, and conducted him in close order of battle through the deserted streets of the city. Pars sanitatis velle sanari fuit —It is a step to the cure to be willing to be cured. The Pisatans,--inhabitants of the district immediately around Olympia,--availed themselves of the Spartan invasion of Elis to petition for restoration of their original privilege, as administrators of the temple of Zeus at Olympia with its great periodical solemnity,--by the dispossession of the Eleians as usurpers...

I immediately asked: "Against whom?"—since, if England so suddenly offered to make an alliance in the midst of peace, it was plain [Pg 105] that she needed the German army, which made it worth while to find out against whom the army was needed and for what reason German troops were to fight, at England's behest, by her side. Whoever boasts, in so sick a time as this, to employ a true and sincere virtue in the world’s service, either knows not what it is, opinions growing corrupt with manners (and, in truth, to hear them describe it, to hear the most of them glorify themselves in their deportments, and lay down their rules; instead of painting virtue, they paint pure vice and injustice, and so represent it false in the education of princes); or if he does know it, boasts unjustly and let him say what he will, does a thousand things of which his own conscience must necessarily accuse him. Natásha knew that she ought to go away, but was unable to do so: something gripped ...

General Halleck commenced his efforts in all quarters to get reinforcements to forward to me immediately on my departure from Cairo. His father keeps a cookshop here by the Stone Bridge, and you know there was a large icon of God Almighty painted with a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other. La Mothe now endeavored more than ever to induce me to flee, assuring me that, if I went to Montargis, I should be out of all trouble; but that if I did not, I should pay for it. The contemporaries of Severus in the enjoyment of the peace and glory of his reign, forgave the cruelties by which it had been introduced. [205] Xen. Several months before the signing of the treaty at the Hague, Eugene, at the head of the Emperor's troops in Italy, had opened the war. It was at first embraced by great numbers of the Theraputae, or Essenians, of the Lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect which had abated much of its reverence for the Mosaic ceremonies. Instead of first defining the conceptions of freedo...

“But how are you to get that balance?” Pierre was beginning. Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. C. Demeter replied that she had made her escape from pirates, who had captured her, and added that she would feel grateful for a home with any worthy family, whom she would be willing to serve in a menial capacity. Sennacherib's third campaign was directed against this coalition, and is probably to be assigned to the year 702 B.C. With its usual promptitude, the Assyrian army marched on Phoenicia, and thus attacked one of the allies before the rest had a chance to unite their forces. Chi si fa fango, il porco lo calpestra —He who makes himself dirt, the swine will tread on him. All the facts are in flat contradiction to such conjectures. They will not succeed in separating me from the Germans. Cruikshank. “Again!” she commanded, pointing with a peremptory gesture to the spot where Nicholas had placed the kiss. When, much later, “Un...

Anon after the returne of the duke of Lancaster, and other the ambassadors that had béene at Amiens, a councell of the lords and chiefe states of the realme was called at Stamford, the which (as if it had béene vnto a parlement) there came foorth of euerie good towne certeine persons appointed to deliberate and take aduise in so weightie a matter, as either to conclude vpon peace, or else vpon warre. Both gentlemen sat for a long time alone over their cigars. Nay, it is well known that a song well sung produces its intended effect upon the feelings almost as fully though we fail to catch the words or are ignorant of the language to which they belong. Drama, A Dictionary of the. Being a comprehensive Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest to the Present Times. [679] Xen. Colonel Strachan came [102] almost upon him in Corbiesdale, in Ross-shire, and calling his men around him under the shelter of the high moorlan...

Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes —Happy the man who knows the rural gods. There was consumption in my father's family, two of his brothers having died of that disease, which made my symptoms more alarming. "Moreover, the Friends and nearest Relations of the Dead acquaint the Judges and the rest of their Friends with the Time prefixt for the Funeral of such an one by Name, declaring that such a day he is to pass the Lake. Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale, 15 nous ne sortirons que par la force —We are here by the will of the people, and nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence. Judicis est jus dicere non dare —It is the judge's duty to enunciate the law, not to make it. The first line of the Goths at length gave way in disorder; the second, advancing to sustain it, shared its fate; and the third only remained entire, prepared to dispute the passage of the morass, which was imprudently attempted by the presumption of the enemy. Be...

In the more early ages of the world, whilst the forest that covered Europe afforded a retreat to a few wandering savages, the inhabitants of Asia were already collected into populous cities, and reduced under extensive empires, the seat of the arts, of luxury, and of despotism. The son of a chief by a woman of rank had almost unlimited rights over the property of his mother’s family, or of her people. To add to my embarrassment at this time Sherman, who was now near Atlanta, wanted reinforcements. “It’s all the same to him,” he muttered, turning quickly to a soldier who stood behind him. Learned fools are the greatest of all fools. 10 Ger. He ordered the Sabines to remember their agreement, and not to grudge her what was on their left arms. Toward the middle of the eighteenth century a school of secular historians with broad views and high aims again arose. Hauing thus described the place where the iusts should be kept, with the rewards, and other circumstan...

The work on natural history, having of course no other than an antiquarian interest in modern times, has never been translated; but the Varia Historia has been rendered into English twice; the quaint old translation of Fleming, made in 1576, being the one which we select for our excerpts. It was really heartrending to have to see the kinsfolk and friends of murderers who were condemned to death, and among the very rare occasions when anything governmental or official caused me to lose sleep were the times when I had to listen to some poor mother making a plea for a criminal so wicked, so utterly brutal and depraved, that it would have been a crime on my part to remit his punishment. The most patient Reader, who computes that three ponderous 3 volumes have been already employed on the events of four centuries, may, perhaps, be alarmed at the long prospect of nine hundred years. Mayor Strong had been elected Mayor the preceding fall, when the general anti-Democratic wave of that year...

When the archbishop began to answer in his owne defense, the king willed him to sit |840| downe againe and to hold his peace, for all should be well. The seven first centuries were filled with a rapid succession of triumphs; but it was reserved for Augustus to relinquish the ambitious design of subduing the whole earth, and to introduce a spirit of moderation into the public councils. [654] Xen. Had he been asked what he thought of the state of Russia, he would have said that it was not his business to think about it, that Kutúzov and others were there for that purpose, but that he had heard that the regiments were to be made up to their full strength, that fighting would probably go on for a long time yet, and that things being so it was quite likely he might be in command of a regiment in a couple of years’ time. And he fell back into that artificial realm of imaginary greatness, and again—as a horse walking a treadmill thinks it is doing something for itself—he ...

Ferrier’s works are remarkable for an unusual charm and simplicity of style. In der Noth allein / Bewähret sich der Adel grosser Seele —In difficulty alone does the nobility of great souls prove itself. Natural reason indeed does so far point out the person, that it is deemed most SUITABLE for a SUPERIOR ONLY to be invested with the power of inflicting punishment. On the west side it approaches close to the precipitous Libyan range, which there projects; on the eastern side it bounds a wide fruitful plain, extending [116] as far as Medamut, a spot situated on the border of the Arabian Desert, several hours distant. vi, 36; Plutarch, Perikles, c. No, but I am not praying for trifles now,” he thought as he put his pipe down in a corner, and folding his hands placed himself before the icon. One of them read from time to time, while the others were at work, and not one went out without asking leave of the eldest. Feeling comes before reflection. H. After a little ti...

Rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. His character was as pure as his talent and learning were great. The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Stephens, who has described all the early caricatures in the Hawkins Collections with the utmost pains and minutiæ, sets down this personage as Mr. It follows from this that the main story of our history has to do with the deeds of men of action. Habere derelictui rem suam —To neglect one's affairs. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian arms and the hope of future triumph. Perikles now in all haste withdrew his troops from Euboea, to meet the invader. de Beausset the hon...

The northwestern palace yielded the richest spoil: it was also far better preserved than the contents of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad, where Botta had made his excavations. According to St. A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen. Dan. To confound the order of seasons and climates, 57 to sport with the passions and prejudices of his subjects, and to subvert every law of nature and decency, were in the number of his most delicious amusements. Two days after he sent him to the castle on a charge of treason for limiting the Test. Like the adopted son of Caesar, he was distinguished as a statesman rather than as a warrior; nor did either of those princes employ force, whenever their purpose could be effected by policy. The battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma seemed to us engaged, as pretty important affairs; but we had only a faint conception of their magnitude until they were fought over in the North by the Press and the reports came back to us. He passed...

The importance of George Smith's decipherment in 1872 of the Babylonian story of the Deluge was at once recognised, and led to his being sent to Nineveh in January, 1873, under the auspices of the Daily Telegraph . Rust wastes more than use. Fr. “One should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said Denísov. At last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. What an Ireland it was likely to become under them was soon evident. In practical matters Pierre unexpectedly felt within himself a center of gravity he had previously lacked. “What is it? What?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. The soil was almost as fertile as the loam of Egypt, and, like the latter, rewarded a hundredfold the labour of the inhabitants.* Among the wild herbage which spreads over the country in the spring, and clothes it for a b...

The man lay on his back, his huge arms and legs outstretched. “Nicholas, when did you break your cameo?” she asked to change the subject, looking at his finger on which he wore a ring with a cameo of Laocoön’s head. “No, gentlemen, no... Nunc dimittis —Now let me depart in peace. In earnest, ‘tis too abject, too much meanness of spirit, in men to suffer such ungrateful, indiscreet, and giddy-headed people so to persecute, forage, and rifle those tender and charming favours. Theophrastus, in his treatise on Ethics, discusses whether a man's character can be changed by disease, and whether virtue depends upon bodily health. The gunboats Tyler and Lexington, Gwin and Shirk commanding, with the artillery under Webster, aided the army and effectually checked their further progress. Gallus Ælius, in the first book of his explanation of law-terms, defines a person restored to his original situation by the right of postliminium, to be one, who had gone fro...

All this time they strove equally to induce Charles to accept the terms, which would have removed all difficulties. is more active, more eager, and more sharp: but withal, ‘tis more precipitant, fickle, moving, and inconstant; a fever subject to intermissions and paroxysms, that has seized but on one part of us. Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten. Port. The office, the most important office under me, was run in admirable fashion throughout my Administration; I doubt if there ever was an important department of the New York State Government run with a higher standard of efficiency and integrity. I did not remain long under the power of such habits because my sister's care recovered me. But first his horse and then the whole of his men were thrown into confusion. In sailing up the river we meet with Babylon, a strong fortress, built by some Babylonians who had taken refuge there, and had obtained permission from the kings to establish a settlement in that place. ...

The body was suited to the soul. Her eyes grew dim. We need to know no more but that Mars’ house is in the middle of the triangle of the hand, that of Venus in the thumb, and that of Mercury in the little finger; that when the table-line cuts the tubercle of the forefinger ‘tis a sign of cruelty, that when it falls short of the middle finger, and that the natural median-line makes an angle with the vital in the same side, ‘tis a sign of a miserable death; that if in a woman the natural line be open, and does not close the angle with the vital, this denotes that she shall not be very chaste. Formerly he had sought Him in aims he set himself. N.'s Dream , ii. He replied that the mother of the gods was a Phrygian, and that the Athenians, who make so much of their being native born, are in no way nobler than the native fish and grasshoppers. Fox, ye may find at large. It might perhaps have been expected that the conquerors, fatigued with civil war, and connected by a pr...

The occupations and amusements of the happy shades were of the same nature as those which they had delighted in whilst on earth. From the beginning of the fighting our wounded had been carried to the houses at the rear, near the place of debarkation. The proper thing to do was to make him ridiculous. Athene was at once admitted into the assembly of the gods, and henceforth took her place as the most faithful and sagacious of all her father's counsellors. Before leaving Athens Theseus, by the advice of an oracle, chose Aphrodite as his guardian and protectress, and accordingly offered up a sacrifice to her. Very respectfully, M. Speaking in general terms, it may be said that Asia is the great original home of domesticated animals as a class. “I assure you that the town of Smolénsk is not in the slightest danger as yet and it is unlikely that it will be threatened with any. The two divisions of the 9th corps not now with Hancock, may be moved down the north bank of the river wher...

Some have even shown terrible grief at the death of dogs and horses; whereas others, who have lost noble sons, made no unusual or unseemly exhibition of sorrow, but passed the remainder of their lives calmly and composedly. It has been suggested that the whole forms a solar myth and is divided into twelve parts to correspond to the twelve months. It is a stronghold into which the enemy cannot enter. When I started on this trip it was necessary for me to have some person along who could turn dispatches into cipher, and who could also read the cipher dispatches which I was liable to receive daily and almost hourly. The American public rarely appreciate the high quality of the work done by some of our diplomats—work, usually entirely unnoticed and unrewarded, which redounds to the interest and the honor of all of us. The remonstrance as framed by the commons declared that "there ought not any imposition to be laid upon the goods of merchants, exported or imported, without the commo...

His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune. Pub. If men are not to be appointed by favoritism, wise or unwise, honest or dishonest, they must be appointed in some automatic way, which generally means by competitive examination. They say best men are moulded out of faults, / And, for the most, become much more the better / For being a little bad. Meas. They asked me who was now my confessor. Twice during his career Kutúzov had been governor of Vílna. "If (replied Phalinus) I saw one chance out of ten thousand in your favor, in the event of a contest with the king, I should advise you to refuse the surrender of your arms. This was, however, overruled by the majority. A fronte præcipitium, a tergo lupus —A precipice before, a wolf behind. My mother's great-grandfather, Archibald Bulloch, was the first Revolutionary "President" of Georgia. This had, regrettably but perhaps inevitably, tended to throw the party into the hands not merely of the conser...

The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around. But as regards the comparison between the history of Religion and that of Philosophy as to inner content, there is not in the latter as there is in Religion a fixed and fundamental truth which, as unchangeable, is apart from history. At last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. “I am not at all ambitious that any one should love and esteem me more dead than living. Chapman's (George) Works : Vol. And we mistake if we think that these incommodities serve it for a spur and a seasoning to its sweetness (as in nature one contrary is quickened by another), or say, when we come to virtue, that like consequences and difficulties overwhelm and render it austere and inaccessible; whereas, much more aptly than in voluptuousness, they ennoble, sharpen, and heighten th...

The fortunate soil assisted, and even prevented, the hand of cultivation. With reference to commerce, the proclamation to industrious workmen and to peasants evoked no response. Could he accomplish this match, Louis, who was bound by treaty with Spain to offer no aid to Portugal, might be able to do it under cover of the King of England. "Why, as for that (replied Cheirisophus), you Athenians, also, as I learn, are capital hands at stealing the public money, and that too in spite of prodigious peril to the thief; nay, your most powerful men steal most of all,--at least, if it be the most powerful men among you who are raised to official command. Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim —Let the ear despise nothing, nor yet be too ready to believe. Many strong Union men believed that the war must prove a failure. 46 461 Julia Maesa, her sister, was ordered to leave the court and Antioch. At my request, Mayor-General B. Qui veut la fin, veut les moyens —Who wills the en...

Aujourd'hui marié, demain marri —To-day married, to-morrow marred. It is not the stamp on the coin that gives it its value, though on the bank-note it is. J. Justice may admit of some delay: but the other method demands prompt execution, and therefore should not be undertaken but in extreme emergency. The audience occupies seats around the ring in which the exhibition is given, each seat but the foremost rising higher than the one in front, so that every one can get a full view of the sport. Bloemen zijn geen vruchten —Blossoms are not 60 fruits. “He is an excellent fellow.... When the armies retired to the Isthmus all the generals laid their votes on the altar there, and each man declared himself to deserve the first prize for valour, and Themistokles to deserve the second. Every year the Forest Service had to fight for its life. Yet God gave me an unbounded patience. The quarrel toucheth none but us alone, / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then. 1 Hen. (Land...