Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayLippincott, 1894 - 555 pages |
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... letters seem to have been in- tended for the public ; and in them he may be con- sidered as writing his own memoirs . Every epistle is a kind of historical sketch , in which we have a view of him in some striking attitude , either of in ...
... letters seem to have been in- tended for the public ; and in them he may be con- sidered as writing his own memoirs . Every epistle is a kind of historical sketch , in which we have a view of him in some striking attitude , either of in ...
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... Letters of Pliny the Younger , trans . by J. D. Lewis , Camb . and Lond . , 1879 , p . 8vo . To TUSCUS : ON A COURSE OF STUDY . know the bent of your present attention is directed towards the eloquence of the bar ; but I would not for ...
... Letters of Pliny the Younger , trans . by J. D. Lewis , Camb . and Lond . , 1879 , p . 8vo . To TUSCUS : ON A COURSE OF STUDY . know the bent of your present attention is directed towards the eloquence of the bar ; but I would not for ...
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... letters from foreign pens , as if no author were complete without those necessary appurtenances ! Whilst surely our Englishmen write ( though not so many ) as good as any other nation . In a word , his Tox- ophilus ' is accounted a good ...
... letters from foreign pens , as if no author were complete without those necessary appurtenances ! Whilst surely our Englishmen write ( though not so many ) as good as any other nation . In a word , his Tox- ophilus ' is accounted a good ...
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... letters were he unacquainted with the Es- says of Bacon . " - HALLAM : Introduc . to Lit. of Europe . ESSAY X. OF LOVE . The stage is more beholding to love than the life of men ; for as to the stage , love is even matter of comedies ...
... letters were he unacquainted with the Es- says of Bacon . " - HALLAM : Introduc . to Lit. of Europe . ESSAY X. OF LOVE . The stage is more beholding to love than the life of men ; for as to the stage , love is even matter of comedies ...
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... other means , that few foreign nations can rightly pronounce ours , without some and that great note of imperfection , espe- cially the Frenchmen , who also seldom to be Epistolæ Ho - Elianæ , or the letters WILLIAM HARRISON . 53 333.
... other means , that few foreign nations can rightly pronounce ours , without some and that great note of imperfection , espe- cially the Frenchmen , who also seldom to be Epistolæ Ho - Elianæ , or the letters WILLIAM HARRISON . 53 333.
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