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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... Present the olive , but the sword in hand . And thou , O people , flushed with our defeat , To whom the mourning of our land is sweet , Thou witness of the death - blow of our brave ! Dream not that France is vanquished to a slave ...
... Present the olive , but the sword in hand . And thou , O people , flushed with our defeat , To whom the mourning of our land is sweet , Thou witness of the death - blow of our brave ! Dream not that France is vanquished to a slave ...
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... present when I was dragged and stripped and kicked , and carried to the home which I had left strong and well ; and my mother rushed out , and the women cried and wailed as if a man had died in the house , so that some of the neighbors ...
... present when I was dragged and stripped and kicked , and carried to the home which I had left strong and well ; and my mother rushed out , and the women cried and wailed as if a man had died in the house , so that some of the neighbors ...
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... you , may now be shown toward me in the present contest . Next , I beseech them , to grant , what so nearly concerns yourselves , your religion , and VOL . VIII . - 3 your reputation , that you may not take counsel of DEMOSTHENES 35.
... you , may now be shown toward me in the present contest . Next , I beseech them , to grant , what so nearly concerns yourselves , your religion , and VOL . VIII . - 3 your reputation , that you may not take counsel of DEMOSTHENES 35.
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... present occasion , Athenians , as in many things , so especially in two of great moment , Æschines has the advantage of me . One is , that we have not the same interests at stake ; it is by no means the same thing for me to forfeit your ...
... present occasion , Athenians , as in many things , so especially in two of great moment , Æschines has the advantage of me . One is , that we have not the same interests at stake ; it is by no means the same thing for me to forfeit your ...
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... present reverses , of flying to you for refuge , Philip , to prevent this , and obstruct the union of those states , proffered peace to you , succor to them . What , then , enabled him thus to overreach you , who were , I might almost ...
... present reverses , of flying to you for refuge , Philip , to prevent this , and obstruct the union of those states , proffered peace to you , succor to them . What , then , enabled him thus to overreach you , who were , I might almost ...
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