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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... Language , Changes in ..... 433 Franklin , Jefferson on ........ 260 Languages , Harris on ........... 180 Franklin and the American Revolution 250 Languages , Spencer on .. .................. . 524 French , Character of the ........ 57 ...
... Language , Changes in ..... 433 Franklin , Jefferson on ........ 260 Languages , Harris on ........... 180 Franklin and the American Revolution 250 Languages , Spencer on .. .................. . 524 French , Character of the ........ 57 ...
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... language . Posterity , the supreme court of literary appeal , has not only reversed the judg- ment , but , according to its general practice , re- versed it with costs , and condemned the unfortu- nate works to pay , not only for their ...
... language . Posterity , the supreme court of literary appeal , has not only reversed the judg- ment , but , according to its general practice , re- versed it with costs , and condemned the unfortu- nate works to pay , not only for their ...
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... languages was confined to a few ecclesiastics . Ancient learn- ing had as yet made too little progress among us to ... language as early as the close of the fifteenth century . ' " " -CHALMERS : Biog . Diet . , viii . 512. See , also ...
... languages was confined to a few ecclesiastics . Ancient learn- ing had as yet made too little progress among us to ... language as early as the close of the fifteenth century . ' " " -CHALMERS : Biog . Diet . , viii . 512. See , also ...
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... language into verse . in themselves , otherwise than as they resist thentic source of information upon many of the those impressions that our natural infirmity most interesting events of that reign ; and from is still making upon us ...
... language into verse . in themselves , otherwise than as they resist thentic source of information upon many of the those impressions that our natural infirmity most interesting events of that reign ; and from is still making upon us ...
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... language : full of recondite observations , long matured , and carefully sifted . Few books are more quoted , and , what is not always the case with such books , we may add , that few are more generally read . In this respect they lead ...
... language : full of recondite observations , long matured , and carefully sifted . Few books are more quoted , and , what is not always the case with such books , we may add , that few are more generally read . In this respect they lead ...
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