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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... appears great to your appre- hensions , think again , that this grandeur was acquired by brave and valiant men ; by men who knew their duty , and in the moments of action were sensible of shame ; who , whenever their attempts were ...
... appears great to your appre- hensions , think again , that this grandeur was acquired by brave and valiant men ; by men who knew their duty , and in the moments of action were sensible of shame ; who , whenever their attempts were ...
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... appears to be inconsistent with pleasure . But the truth of the voice is open to the hearing only , and latent to the sight ( which shows as many differences of things fixed upon by a most subtle motion , beginning and ending as it were ...
... appears to be inconsistent with pleasure . But the truth of the voice is open to the hearing only , and latent to the sight ( which shows as many differences of things fixed upon by a most subtle motion , beginning and ending as it were ...
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... appear to be puerile . In truth Livy is not an historian on whom implicit reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have pos- sessed considerable means of information . And the first decade , to which Macchiavelli has con ...
... appear to be puerile . In truth Livy is not an historian on whom implicit reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have pos- sessed considerable means of information . And the first decade , to which Macchiavelli has con ...
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... appear to me that we value it at too high a rate , and also over- value the resolution of those whom we have either seen or heard have contemned it , or displaced themselves of their own accord . Its essence is not evidently so ...
... appear to me that we value it at too high a rate , and also over- value the resolution of those whom we have either seen or heard have contemned it , or displaced themselves of their own accord . Its essence is not evidently so ...
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... appear- ance without applauding it as a benefit . Consider the inexpressible advantages which will ever attend your highness while you make the power of rendering men happy the measure of your actions ! While this is your impulse , how ...
... appear- ance without applauding it as a benefit . Consider the inexpressible advantages which will ever attend your highness while you make the power of rendering men happy the measure of your actions ! While this is your impulse , how ...
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2d edit admiration affection ancient appear beauty born Bost called character Christ Christian church Cicero Clovernook death delight died discourse divine Don Quixote earth Edin Edinburgh Review England English English language Essays excellent eyes fear feel genius give glory hand happiness hath heart heaven History honour human ical imagination JAMES MACKINTOSH Julius C¿sar kind king knowledge labour language learning Lect less Letters light live LL.D Lond look Lord Lord Macaulay Macvey Napier mankind manner ment mind moral nature ness never noble observed opinion passion perfect person Petrarch Phila philosopher Phrenology Plato pleasure Poems poet poetry political prose reason religion Rome sense Sermons soul speak spirit style taste things thou thought tion translation truth unto Vathek Virgil virtue vols whole wisdom words writings