"68" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... common Sense tells us they are not fit for a Shepherd's mouth. Here Theocritus cannot be altogether excus'd, but Virgil deserves no reprehension. But Proverbs justly challenge admission into Pastorals, nothing being more common in {68} the mouths of ...
— De Carmine Pastorali (1684) • Rene Rapin
... ARTICLE 68.—The President appoints all officials, either personally, by commission through the head officials, taking into consideration that all officials must be enfranchised burghers, or must produce good testimonials to the satisfaction of the Government, and that so far as they ...
— Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain • Various
... 68. It is in thy power to live free from all compulsion in the greatest tranquillity of mind, even if all the world cry out against thee as much as they choose, and even if wild beasts tear in pieces the members of this kneaded ...
— The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius
... also intensely patriotic, and was very strongly suspected by the Spanish rulers of Cuba of regarding with something more than mere passive sympathy the efforts that had been made by the Cubans from time to time, ever since '68, to throw off the Spanish yoke. He was a great admirer of England, English institutions, and the English form of government, which, despite all its imperfections, he considered to be the most admirable form of government in existence. It was this predilection for ...
— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood
... duty to keep the lists against Bradamante. He, we are told, defended successfully the cause of which he was the champion; but, before the fight began, exchanged Balisarda for a less deadly sword, of which he carefully blunted the point and edge. [Orlando Furioso, xiv. 68.] ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
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