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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... never invade our territories barely with their own , but with the united strength of all their confederates . But when we in- vade the dominions of our neighbours , for We are happy in a form of government the most part we conquer ...
... never invade our territories barely with their own , but with the united strength of all their confederates . But when we in- vade the dominions of our neighbours , for We are happy in a form of government the most part we conquer ...
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... never yet experienced , but from the loss of those to which we have been accustomed . They who are not yet by age exempted from issue , should be comforted in the hope of having more . The children yet to be born will be a private ...
... never yet experienced , but from the loss of those to which we have been accustomed . They who are not yet by age exempted from issue , should be comforted in the hope of having more . The children yet to be born will be a private ...
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... never surpassed , and the chair of Crato never sustained . In books we find the dead as it were liv- ing ; in books we foresee things to come ; in books warlike affairs are methodized ; the rights of peace proceed from books . All ...
... never surpassed , and the chair of Crato never sustained . In books we find the dead as it were liv- ing ; in books we foresee things to come ; in books warlike affairs are methodized ; the rights of peace proceed from books . All ...
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... never find mercy . And anon this holy man knew by revelation the fal- lacy and deceit of the fiend , how he would ... have withdraw him fro to do well . . . . He was ennobled in his life by many miracles . And the very death , which is ...
... never find mercy . And anon this holy man knew by revelation the fal- lacy and deceit of the fiend , how he would ... have withdraw him fro to do well . . . . He was ennobled in his life by many miracles . And the very death , which is ...
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... never fail to entertain with their constant eagerness and gaiety . It is not too much to say that they supply the mind with at once the best stimulus and recreation which the world of books contains . " - REV . ROBERT MARTIN : Imperial ...
... never fail to entertain with their constant eagerness and gaiety . It is not too much to say that they supply the mind with at once the best stimulus and recreation which the world of books contains . " - REV . ROBERT MARTIN : Imperial ...
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