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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... opinion , can be no impertinent topics on this occasion ; the dis- cussion of them must be beneficial to this numerous company of Athenians and of strangers . The ship like men ; but we , notwithstanding our easy and elegant way of life ...
... opinion , can be no impertinent topics on this occasion ; the dis- cussion of them must be beneficial to this numerous company of Athenians and of strangers . The ship like men ; but we , notwithstanding our easy and elegant way of life ...
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... opinion of ex- ploits must suffer by a strict relation . Every sea hath been opened by our fleets , and every land been penetrated by our armies , which have everywhere left behind them eternal monuments of our enmity and our friend ...
... opinion of ex- ploits must suffer by a strict relation . Every sea hath been opened by our fleets , and every land been penetrated by our armies , which have everywhere left behind them eternal monuments of our enmity and our friend ...
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... opinion has long prevailed , not only here at home , but likewise in foreign countries , both dangerous to you and per- nicious to the state , viz . , that in prosecutions men of wealth are always safe , however clearly convicted ...
... opinion has long prevailed , not only here at home , but likewise in foreign countries , both dangerous to you and per- nicious to the state , viz . , that in prosecutions men of wealth are always safe , however clearly convicted ...
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... opinion , and believe it more easy to support adversity than prosperity ; and that fortune is more treacherous and dangerous when she caresses than when she dismays . Experience has taught me this , not books or arguments . I have seen ...
... opinion , and believe it more easy to support adversity than prosperity ; and that fortune is more treacherous and dangerous when she caresses than when she dismays . Experience has taught me this , not books or arguments . I have seen ...
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... opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave , and out of his Christian name a synonyme for the Devil . ... To a modern statesman the form of the Dis- courses may appear to be puerile . In truth ...
... opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave , and out of his Christian name a synonyme for the Devil . ... To a modern statesman the form of the Dis- courses may appear to be puerile . In truth ...
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