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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... common justice be regarded as members of equal value to the public , who have no chil- dren to expose to danger for its safety . But you whose age is already far advanced , com- pute the greater share of happiness your longer time hath ...
... common justice be regarded as members of equal value to the public , who have no chil- dren to expose to danger for its safety . But you whose age is already far advanced , com- pute the greater share of happiness your longer time hath ...
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... common- wealth , nor the fear of the justice of the country , restrain the licentious and wanton cruelty of a monster , who , in confidence of his riches , strikes at the root of liberty , and sets mankind at defiance ? I conclude with ...
... common- wealth , nor the fear of the justice of the country , restrain the licentious and wanton cruelty of a monster , who , in confidence of his riches , strikes at the root of liberty , and sets mankind at defiance ? I conclude with ...
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... common apart- ment was so covered with books that those who entered could not with due reverence approach his presence . . . . Petrarch says that he had once a conversation with Aungervylle concerning the Island Thule , whom he calls ...
... common apart- ment was so covered with books that those who entered could not with due reverence approach his presence . . . . Petrarch says that he had once a conversation with Aungervylle concerning the Island Thule , whom he calls ...
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... common sense and imagination ; it enters the chamber of intellect , reposes itself upon the couch of memory , and there congener- ates the eternal truth of the mind . Lastly , let us consider how great a com- modity of doctrine exists ...
... common sense and imagination ; it enters the chamber of intellect , reposes itself upon the couch of memory , and there congener- ates the eternal truth of the mind . Lastly , let us consider how great a com- modity of doctrine exists ...
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... common- wealth : if the variation of the times be not observed , and their laws and customs altered accordingly , many mischiefs must follow , and the government be ruined , as we have largely demonstrated before ; but those alterations ...
... common- wealth : if the variation of the times be not observed , and their laws and customs altered accordingly , many mischiefs must follow , and the government be ruined , as we have largely demonstrated before ; but those alterations ...
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