 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1871 - 824 trang
...power of one who had performed such great deeds, and who ruled over such vast dominions. He caused his chair to be set on the sea-shore while the tide was rising, and in a loud voice commanded the ocean to stay his proud waves, and to approach no nearer... | |
 | David Hume - 1872 - 822 trang
...his grandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possible for him ; upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore while the tide was rising, and as the waters approached he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who... | |
 | David Hume - 1873 - 812 trang
...his grandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possible fox him ; upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore while the tide was rising, and as the waters approached he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who... | |
 | David Hume - 1873 - 820 trang
...his grandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possible foi him ; upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore while the tide was rising, and as the waters approached he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 trang
...his grandeur, exclaimed that everything was possible for him : upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while the tide was rising ; and as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 trang
...obedient to his command. Canute, to show ho disapproved of flattery, took the following method to stop them. He ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore while the tide was coming in, and commanded the Bua to retire. ' Thou art under my dominion,' cried he ; ' the land upon which I sit is mine ; I charge... | |
 | Victor E. Kastner - 1883 - 266 trang
...his grandeur, exclaimed that everything was possible for him : upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the seashore, while the tide was rising ; and, as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who... | |
 | Robert Millington Millington - 1883 - 170 trang
...his grandeur, exclaimed that everything was possible for him ; upon which the monareh, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while the tide was rising; and, as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1897 - 232 trang
...popularized by Hume about a dozen years before. In order to teach his flatterers a lesson, the king ordered his chair to be set on the seashore while the tide was rising, and then commanded the waves to retire. " But when the sea still advanced towards him, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1897 - 238 trang
...popularized by Hume about a dozen years before. In order to teach his flatterers a lesson, the king ordered his chair to be set on the seashore while the tide was rising, and then commanded the waves to retire. " But when the sea still advanced towards him, and... | |
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Some of his flatterers breaking out one day in admiration of his grandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possible for him ; upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while the tide was rising ; and as the waters... 
