 | HAMMOND LAMONT - 1897 - 236 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... | |
 | Victor Kastner - 1901 - 264 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... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 trang
...admiration of his grandeur, exclaimed that everything was possible for him: upon which the monarch 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 428 trang
...of 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... | |
 | Edward Latham - 1906 - 338 trang
...was one Being alone who could say to the ocean, Thus far, &c. (Hume, Hist, of Eiigl.) It is said that he ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore while the tide was rising and bade the waters retire and obey the voice of Him who was lord of the ocean. Quoted by Edmund... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 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 com19 On Alfred, see 1 174-81; on Henry I, 1:276-77; on Henry... | |
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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... 
