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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... able . From a very early period great speakers had flourished there . Pisistratus and Themistocles are said to have owed much of their influence to their talents for debate . We learn , with more certainty , that Pericles was ...
... able . From a very early period great speakers had flourished there . Pisistratus and Themistocles are said to have owed much of their influence to their talents for debate . We learn , with more certainty , that Pericles was ...
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... able to serve exercise , or with a natural , rather than an his country meets with no obstacle to pre- acquired , valour , we learn to encounter dan- ferment from his first obscurity . The offices ger : this good at least we receive ...
... able to serve exercise , or with a natural , rather than an his country meets with no obstacle to pre- acquired , valour , we learn to encounter dan- ferment from his first obscurity . The offices ger : this good at least we receive ...
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... able characters condemned and banished , unheard . The harbours , though sufficiently fortified , and the gates of strong towns , opened to pirates and ravagers ; the soldiery and sailors belonging to a province under the protection of ...
... able characters condemned and banished , unheard . The harbours , though sufficiently fortified , and the gates of strong towns , opened to pirates and ravagers ; the soldiery and sailors belonging to a province under the protection of ...
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... able statues , but - of no experience ! What service would his long line of dead ancestors , or his multitude of motionless statues . do his country in the day of battle ? What could such a general do , but in his trepida- tion and ...
... able statues , but - of no experience ! What service would his long line of dead ancestors , or his multitude of motionless statues . do his country in the day of battle ? What could such a general do , but in his trepida- tion and ...
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... able box , a friendly antidote against the poison of good and bad fortune . The one requires a rein to repress the sallies of a transported soul , the other a consolation to fortify the overwhelmed and afflicted spirit . Nature gave you ...
... able box , a friendly antidote against the poison of good and bad fortune . The one requires a rein to repress the sallies of a transported soul , the other a consolation to fortify the overwhelmed and afflicted spirit . Nature gave you ...
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