Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... received , not as a gift , but a truft ; and he acquitted himself fo well in it , that he gained the love and admiration of all the Sicilians . Before he left Sicily , he made the tour of the island , to fee every thing that was curious ...
... received , not as a gift , but a truft ; and he acquitted himself fo well in it , that he gained the love and admiration of all the Sicilians . Before he left Sicily , he made the tour of the island , to fee every thing that was curious ...
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... received by the populace , and were proposed therefore by factious magiftrates as oft as they had any point to carry with the multi- tude against the public good ; fo that Cicero's firft bu- finefs was to quiet the apprehenfions of the ...
... received by the populace , and were proposed therefore by factious magiftrates as oft as they had any point to carry with the multi- tude against the public good ; fo that Cicero's firft bu- finefs was to quiet the apprehenfions of the ...
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... received into great favour by Cæfar , who was now declared dicta- tor the fecond time , and Mark Antony his mafter of horfe . We may easily imagine , what we find indeed from his letters , that he was not a little difcompofed at the ...
... received into great favour by Cæfar , who was now declared dicta- tor the fecond time , and Mark Antony his mafter of horfe . We may easily imagine , what we find indeed from his letters , that he was not a little difcompofed at the ...
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... received the news of the profcription , and of his being included in it . It was the defign of the trium- virate to keep it a fecret , if poffible , to the moment of execution ; in order to furprife thofe whom they had defined to ...
... received the news of the profcription , and of his being included in it . It was the defign of the trium- virate to keep it a fecret , if poffible , to the moment of execution ; in order to furprife thofe whom they had defined to ...
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... received from Mercu- ry , went to Circe , and demanded fword and hand the reftoration of his companions to their former ftate . She complied , and loaded the hero with pleafures and ho- nours . In this voluptuous retreat Ulyffes had by ...
... received from Mercu- ry , went to Circe , and demanded fword and hand the reftoration of his companions to their former ftate . She complied , and loaded the hero with pleafures and ho- nours . In this voluptuous retreat Ulyffes had by ...
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