The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, 8. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1899 |
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Page 18
... appeared between 1821 and 1823 , and in the latter year , L'École des Vieil- lards . For this drama he was awarded a place in the French Academy ( 1825 ) . He produced La Princesse Aurélie ( 1828 ) ; Marino Faliero ( 1829 ) ; during the ...
... appeared between 1821 and 1823 , and in the latter year , L'École des Vieil- lards . For this drama he was awarded a place in the French Academy ( 1825 ) . He produced La Princesse Aurélie ( 1828 ) ; Marino Faliero ( 1829 ) ; during the ...
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... appeared before the President with the following verses : " O ye who seize the thunders of Olympus , Of law eternal overthrow the altars , Ye cowards , of the earth the base oppressors , ( 22 ) DELILLE, or DE LILLE, JACQUES, a French ...
... appeared before the President with the following verses : " O ye who seize the thunders of Olympus , Of law eternal overthrow the altars , Ye cowards , of the earth the base oppressors , ( 22 ) DELILLE, or DE LILLE, JACQUES, a French ...
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... appearing as the coun- sel for Ctesiphon , conducting his own defence . The speeches on both sides have come down to us , and are by common consent pronounced to be the most notable examples of Grecian oratory . The result of the trial ...
... appearing as the coun- sel for Ctesiphon , conducting his own defence . The speeches on both sides have come down to us , and are by common consent pronounced to be the most notable examples of Grecian oratory . The result of the trial ...
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... appeared in The Farmer's Weekly . THE PLEASURES OF BOOKS . Whenever I reflect upon my habitual attachment to books , I feel a new glow of gratitude toward that Power who gave me a mind thus disposed , and to those liberal friends who ...
... appeared in The Farmer's Weekly . THE PLEASURES OF BOOKS . Whenever I reflect upon my habitual attachment to books , I feel a new glow of gratitude toward that Power who gave me a mind thus disposed , and to those liberal friends who ...
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... the State and created an unquenchable and resistless patriotism for the United States . It appeared in the school books . and , by declaiming glowing extracts therefrom , the juvenile orators of 58 CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW.
... the State and created an unquenchable and resistless patriotism for the United States . It appeared in the school books . and , by declaiming glowing extracts therefrom , the juvenile orators of 58 CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW.
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