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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... tion are such that many years under the wisest and best of prætors will not be suffi- cient to restore things to the condition in which he found them . For it is notorious that during the time of his tyranny the Sicilians neither ...
... tion are such that many years under the wisest and best of prætors will not be suffi- cient to restore things to the condition in which he found them . For it is notorious that during the time of his tyranny the Sicilians neither ...
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... tion . And it is the same in a 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 ...
... tion . And it is the same in a 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 ...
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... tion the glory attending this refusal , wherein there may lurk worse ambition than even in the desire itself and fruition of greatness ? Forasmuch as ambition never comports itself better according to itself than when it pro- ceeds by ...
... tion the glory attending this refusal , wherein there may lurk worse ambition than even in the desire itself and fruition of greatness ? Forasmuch as ambition never comports itself better according to itself than when it pro- ceeds by ...
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... tion whatever was peculiar to the character of his nation - has shown himself of kindred to all times and all lands ; to the humblest degrees of cultiva- tion as well as to the highest ; and has thus , beyond all other writers ...
... tion whatever was peculiar to the character of his nation - has shown himself of kindred to all times and all lands ; to the humblest degrees of cultiva- tion as well as to the highest ; and has thus , beyond all other writers ...
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... tion of heaven , and all noble objects , should do nothing but kneel before a little idol , and make himself a subject , though not of the mouth ( as beasts are ) , yet of the eye , which was given him for higher purposes . It is a ...
... tion of heaven , and all noble objects , should do nothing but kneel before a little idol , and make himself a subject , though not of the mouth ( as beasts are ) , yet of the eye , which was given him for higher purposes . It is a ...
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