Jeff Steinport

The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this pressure lay his only hope of salvation. Many examples, however, remain of round plaited gold chains of fine wire, such as are still made by the filigree workers of India, and known as Trichinopoly chains. Quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius —Him whom Jupiter wishes to ruin, he first infatuates. Sheridan captured about eleven hundred prisoners and sixteen guns. Hicks, 40th Illinois Volunteers. [39] These three marches, each of ten parasangs, from Keramôn-Agora to Käystru-Pedion,--are the longest recorded in the Anabasis. The Tigris runs in an oblique direction towards the south from the point where the mountains open out, and gradually approaches the Euphrates. Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. Marshal Villars, considered now the ablest general of France, encamped his army on the plain of Sens, between two impassable morasses, and...

His own prolonged lapses from verbal felicity, and continual habit of solemn meditation on themes not always inspiring, might make us hesitate to choose him as an example of that particular love and gift. In the case of a "controverted election" for the borough of Shaftesbury (Dorset) the evidence produced vividly recalls Hogarth's representation of an election broadside, "Punch, Candidate for Guzzletown," introduced in his picture of "Canvassing for Votes." After the general election, 1774, it was alleged that the sitting members, Sykes and Rumbold, by themselves or their agents, had been guilty of bribery, while it was attempted to be shown that Mortimer, who was the petitioner, had promised money to procure his election. Out of England there went one Iohn de Beaufort bastard son to the duke of Lancaster (as Froissard hath noted) also sir Iohn Russell, sir Iohn Butler and others. Instead of that autonomy which Sparta had so repeatedly promised, it ...

That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkónski set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and fearing to be captured by the French on the way to Krems. Such is the complexion of the following maxim, that every one should prefer the lives of an innumerable and innocent multitude to his own personal and private welfare. The chief of this city received them in a friendly manner, and furnished them with a guide who engaged to conduct them, after five days' march, to a hill from whence they would [p. The discussion began. In all this fearful scene of devastation Hamilton, who had come over as the emissary of William, was one of the most active and unpitying agents. Kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. have you written it?” he continued dictating to the clerk. sense or knowledge. “Natásha, you are sixteen. The festivals held in cities in honour of special div...

“Papa, we shall be late,” said Princess Hélène, turning her beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she stood waiting by the door. Nicholas understood that something must have happened between Sónya and Dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. A survey of the area of each state had been made at an early age, and the lots into which it had been divided were registered on clay tablets containing the name of the proprietor as well as those of his neighbours, together with such indications of the features of the land, dykes, canals, rivers, and buildings as would serve to define its boundaries: rough plans accompanied the description, and in the most complicated instances interpreted it to the eye. The results of the election were undetermined when this engraving appeared, so the engraver has anticipated the ultimate results of the petition, and made the ministerial ca...

On this account Flaccus, the Sicilian, assigns no improbable conjecture for the origin of the word territory, because the enemy is DETERRED from entering it. If, according to Greek reports, the Egyptians believed in the transmigration of souls after death into the body of another being, and that, after having gone through all the animals of land and sea and air, they returned to human form after three thousand years, this doctrine, which is nowhere to be found in manuscripts left to us, may have arisen at this time [188] from their view of conditions after death and the consubstantiality of all life. This ought to be done. On one occasion during the day I rode back as far as the river and met General Buell, who had just arrived; I do not remember the hour, but at that time there probably were as many as four or five thousand stragglers lying under cover of the river bluff, panic-stricken, most of whom would have been shot where they lay, without resistance, before they would have t...

all indeed. The Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri, in 1861, Jackson and Reynolds, were both supporters of the rebellion and took refuge with the enemy. The retreat the Greeks made from Babylon into their own country is famous for the difficulties and calamities they had to overcome; of which this was one, that being encountered in the mountains of Armenia with a horrible storm of snow, they lost all knowledge of the country and of the ways, and being driven up, were a day and a night without eating or drinking; most of their cattle died, many of themselves were starved to death, several struck blind with the force of the hail and the glare of the snow, many of them maimed in their fingers and toes, and many stiff and motionless with the extremity of the cold, who had yet their understanding entire. Incidentally we find a reference to the general election which was then engaging public attention; Doyle has ingeniously given a novel turn to his view of one of the candidates,...

They originally took the form of marginal notes in a copy of Bachet’s Diophantus , and were published in 1670 by his son Samuel, who incorporated them in a new edition of this Greek writer. Tu quamcunque Deus tibi fortunaverit horam, / Grata sume manu; nec dulcia differ in annum, / Ut quocunque loco fueris, vixisse libenter / Te dicas —Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes —Happy the man who knows the rural gods. Zehre wenig, zahle baar —Speak little, speak true. In the center Túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to set fire to the Schön Grabern village, delayed the French advance. “And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief passion,” said the latter. Garde à cheval —Horse-guards; mounted guard. A cavalry force...

The action was much more noble in itself, and of a braver sense than the poet expressed it: for she was so far from being deterred by the thought of her husband’s wound and death and her own, that she had been their promotress and adviser: but having performed this high and courageous enterprise for her husband’s only convenience, she had even in the last gasp of her life no other concern but for him, and of dispossessing him of the fear of dying with her. At that time the streets of the town were eight or ten inches under water, and foot passengers passed from place to place on raised foot-walks. Nor does the mind, that sees the necessary dependences and connections that one cause has with another, think it possible that it should be itself confined to the shortness of this life. He wants wit that wants resolved will. Two Gent. On the contrary, I felt the tenderness of compassion for them, and had more pain for those afflictions which I innocently caused to them, than fo...

It was confessed, or at least it was imagined, that they had distributed among themselves the most important characters of polytheism, one daemon assuming the name and attributes of Jupiter, another of Aesculapius, a third of Venus, and a fourth perhaps of Apollo; 39 and that, by the advantage of their long experience and aerial nature, they were enabled to execute, with sufficient skill and dignity, the parts which they had undertaken. A Roman who possessed a sufficient family of his own might be prevailed upon by a friend who had no children to transfer his wife to him, being fully empowered to give her away, by divorce, for this purpose; but a Lacedaemonian was accustomed to lend his wife for intercourse with a friend, while she remained living in his house, and without the marriage being thereby dissolved. There were two boys and one girl, all too young to comprehend the extent of their misfortune. The work to be done, to make our position as strong against the enemy as his was ...

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul / Lends the tongue vows. Ham. , i. “‘You see, St. But it is just the universal Mind with which we have to do. The first thing which he planned was the design for an immense palace for James on the site of Whitehall. On the 16th of June, Rooke being joined by Sir Cloudesley Shovel, they sailed to Nice, but found it in no danger; and they then went in quest of the French fleet, which Rooke in the preceding month had caught sight of on their way to Toulon. and Christians pray to God, “Thy will be done,” that they may not fall into the inconvenience the poet feigns of King Midas. Among the Greeks, no religious or social reform could be developed and preserved that took for a basis their castes of irresponsible gods. By a dexterous application to his sensual appetites, they compared the tranquillity, the splendor, the refined pleasures of Rome, with the tumult of a Pannonian camp, which afforded neither leisure nor mater...