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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... excellent writer has doubtless faithfully reported the general line of his argu- ments . " - LORD MACAULAY : On the Athenian Ora- tors : Knight's Quarterly Magazine , August , 1824 , and in his works , complete , 1866 , 8 vols . , 8vo ...
... excellent writer has doubtless faithfully reported the general line of his argu- ments . " - LORD MACAULAY : On the Athenian Ora- tors : Knight's Quarterly Magazine , August , 1824 , and in his works , complete , 1866 , 8 vols . , 8vo ...
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... excellent remedy under disasters , which is the ignorance of them . We seem better treated in intelligence , foresight , and mem- ory . No doubt these are admirable presents ; but they often annoy more than they assist us . A prey to ...
... excellent remedy under disasters , which is the ignorance of them . We seem better treated in intelligence , foresight , and mem- ory . No doubt these are admirable presents ; but they often annoy more than they assist us . A prey to ...
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... excellent voices both of men and chil- dren . I have seen the king suddenly come in thither in a mask , with a dozen of other maskers , all in garments like shepherds , made of fine cloth of gold , and fine crimson satin paned , and ...
... excellent voices both of men and chil- dren . I have seen the king suddenly come in thither in a mask , with a dozen of other maskers , all in garments like shepherds , made of fine cloth of gold , and fine crimson satin paned , and ...
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... excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion . A man can- not tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions : the other , by taking ...
... excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion . A man can- not tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions : the other , by taking ...
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... excellent philosophers have ever done , to sequester themselves from the tumultuous world ; or as in Pliny's Villa Laurentana , Tully's Tusculu , Jovius's study , that they might better " vacare studiis et Deo . " Methinks , therefore ...
... excellent philosophers have ever done , to sequester themselves from the tumultuous world ; or as in Pliny's Villa Laurentana , Tully's Tusculu , Jovius's study , that they might better " vacare studiis et Deo . " Methinks , therefore ...
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