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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... called a democracy . How different soever different quarters of our service by land . in a private capacity , we all enjoy the same But if anywhere they engage and defeat a general equality our laws are fitted to pre- small party of our ...
... called a democracy . How different soever different quarters of our service by land . in a private capacity , we all enjoy the same But if anywhere they engage and defeat a general equality our laws are fitted to pre- small party of our ...
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... called Richard Aungervylle , is said to have alone possessed more books than all the bishops of England together . Besides the fixed libraries which he had formed in his several palaces , the floor of his common apart- ment was so ...
... called Richard Aungervylle , is said to have alone possessed more books than all the bishops of England together . Besides the fixed libraries which he had formed in his several palaces , the floor of his common apart- ment was so ...
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... called iron - footed , for your singular force and agility ; you are now bent , and lean upon the shoulders of those whom you formerly supported . Your country beheld you one day its governor , the next an exile . Princes disputed for ...
... called iron - footed , for your singular force and agility ; you are now bent , and lean upon the shoulders of those whom you formerly supported . Your country beheld you one day its governor , the next an exile . Princes disputed for ...
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... called him thrice by his own name . And when the holy man had answered him , he said none in this world is so great a sinner , but if he convert him , our Lord would pardon him ; but who that sleeth himself with hard pen- ance , shall ...
... called him thrice by his own name . And when the holy man had answered him , he said none in this world is so great a sinner , but if he convert him , our Lord would pardon him ; but who that sleeth himself with hard pen- ance , shall ...
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... called a pleasure or not ? Some have thought that there was no pleasure but that which was excited by some sensible motion in the body . But this opinion has been long run down among them , so that now they do almost all agree in this ...
... called a pleasure or not ? Some have thought that there was no pleasure but that which was excited by some sensible motion in the body . But this opinion has been long run down among them , so that now they do almost all agree in this ...
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