These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other, where reason is perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing... English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray - Page 262edited by - 1888 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serlonian log, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend... | |
| 1775 - 868 pages
...Some yearsago, the repeal of a revenue aft, upon its underftood principle, might ivboie have funk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpeclable company. The queltion with "'tis, not whether you have a right to render your people... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 pages
...confufion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both fides ; and there is no fure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog^ betwixt Damiata and Mount Cafus old, where armies whole have funk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...gathers heap, and ruin seems 590 Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Bums frore, and cold performs th' erFe<ft of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed furies... | |
| Thomas James Mathias - 1799 - 102 pages
...serene, the Christian Victor rode/ And oo' h'is flag insqrib'd, THE WILJL OF QOD ! (g) The ( /) " That Serbon'ian Bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where Armies whole have sunk." PL b. 2. (ยง) The Victory of Admiral Lord NELSON on the First of August, 1798, over the French Fleet... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...VOL. I. JB \) / thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog, betzuixt Damiata and Mount Casnis old, where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...gathers heap, and ruin seems 590 Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. 595 Thither by harpy-footed furies... | |
| 1801 - 448 pages
...public school. It has been received at home and abroad with equal attention and honour. (s) " That Serbonian Bog. Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where Armies whole have suuk." PL b, a. There, as in mournful pomp o'er Egypt's woes, Th' embodied Majesty of Nilus rose, In... | |
| School - 1801 - 450 pages
...public school. It has been received at home and abroad with , etjual attention and honour, (/) " That Serbonian Bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where Armies whole have smjk." P, L. b, 9. There, as in mournful pomp o'er Egypt's woes, Th' embodied Majesty of Nilus rose,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 pages
...point is the great Serbonfan bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Ca/ius old, where armies whole have funk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people... | |
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