An Introduction to the Italian Languaje; Containing Specimens Both of Prose and Verse, Selectes from Francesco Redi, Galileo Galilei, [Etc.] with A L - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1755. Excerpt: ... with the justest wrath against her husband, because the cruel injuries that he had done wickedly to them, deserved it; but as when he was alive she always had wished she might stop him in so wicked a lise, so now she was prepared to show it, and help them to chastise him thus dead as much as it was possible. Theresore that they would take that corps and give it to eat to the dogs, and ravage it in as cruel a manner as could be imagined; but she intreated them that they would have compassion on those innocent children, who not only could not be tainted with guilt, but npt even be conscious of the ill doings of their father. Of such essicacy were these words,that the raging indignation already conceived in the minds of all that people, was immediately mitigated, and turned into so mercisul affection, that not only they unanimously chose those children sor their lords, but also gave to the corps of the,dead a most honourable burial.' Here the Magnisico made a little pause, then added, Do you not know that the wise and the daughters of Mithridates showed much less sear of death than Mithridates himself? and the wise of Asdrubal than Asdrubal? Do you not know that Armonia, daughter of Hyeron of Syracuse, chose to die in the burning of her country? It is sure, faid then Frigio, where obstinacy is required, sometimes there women are sound, who would never change their mind: as that who being not able to fay seiffars any more, with her hands made a sign of them. The Magnisico Giuliana said, That obstinacy, which tends to a virtuous end, ought to be called constancy, as it was that of Epicaris, the daughter of a freed man of Rome, who being conscious of a great conspiracy against Nero, v/as of such constancy, that racked with the greatest tortures that may be imag...
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