 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1844 - 542 trang
...things would be obedient to his command. Canute, sensihle of their adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them. He ordered his chair...tide was coming in, and commanded the sea to retire. 10. "Thou art under my dominion," cried he; "the land upon " which Isit is mine ; 1 charge thee, therefore,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1846 - 482 trang
...things would be obedient to his command. Canute, sensible of their adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them. He ordered his chair...tide was coming in, and commanded the sea to retire. 10. " Thou art under my dominion," cried he, "the land upon which I sit is mine ; I charge thee, therefore,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1849 - 524 trang
...things would be obedient to his command. Canute, sensible of their adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them. He ordered his chair...tide was coming in, and commanded the sea to retire. 10. " Thou art under my dominion," cried he, " the land upon which I sit is mine ; I charge thee, therefore,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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... | |
 | David Hume - 1851 - 532 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 - 1854 - 556 trang
...of his grandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possible for him : on 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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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 ti obey the voice of him who... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 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 ; ami, as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who... | |
 | David Hume - 1856 - 536 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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 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... | |
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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... 
