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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... action , by ac- tion to be honoured for it - by such as you see the public gratitude now performing about this funeral ; and that the virtues of many ought not to be endangered by the manage- ment of any one person , when their credit ...
... action , by ac- tion to be honoured for it - by such as you see the public gratitude now performing about this funeral ; and that the virtues of many ought not to be endangered by the manage- ment of any one person , when their credit ...
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... actions , but rather the not being duly pre- pared by previous debate before we are obliged to proceed to execution . Herein consists our distinguishing excellence , that in the hour of action we show the greatest courage , and yet ...
... actions , but rather the not being duly pre- pared by previous debate before we are obliged to proceed to execution . Herein consists our distinguishing excellence , that in the hour of action we show the greatest courage , and yet ...
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... action were sensible of shame ; who , whenever their attempts were unsuccess- ful , thought it dishonourable their country should stand in need of anything their valour could do for it , and so made it the most glori- ous present ...
... action were sensible of shame ; who , whenever their attempts were unsuccess- ful , thought it dishonourable their country should stand in need of anything their valour could do for it , and so made it the most glori- ous present ...
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... actions condemn him in the opinion of all impartial persons , but who , according to his own reckoning , and declared dependence upon his riches , is already acquitted : I mean Caius Verres . If that sentence is passed upon him which ...
... actions condemn him in the opinion of all impartial persons , but who , according to his own reckoning , and declared dependence upon his riches , is already acquitted : I mean Caius Verres . If that sentence is passed upon him which ...
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... actions which they have only read , I have partly seen , and partly myself achieved . What they know by reading , I know by action . They are pleased to slight my mean birth ; I despise their mean characters . Want of birth and fortune ...
... actions which they have only read , I have partly seen , and partly myself achieved . What they know by reading , I know by action . They are pleased to slight my mean birth ; I despise their mean characters . Want of birth and fortune ...
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