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. köide |
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—and they spoke of making me into a monk , or , if I would not hear of that , of turning me into a clerk in the notary's office . A monk ! a clerk ! when all the trees cried out to me to climb , and all the birds called to me to fly !
—and they spoke of making me into a monk , or , if I would not hear of that , of turning me into a clerk in the notary's office . A monk ! a clerk ! when all the trees cried out to me to climb , and all the birds called to me to fly !
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I wonder to hear them say that Rome is sad , with all that mirth and music of its water laughing through all its streets , till the steepest and stoniest ways are murmurous with it as any brook - fed forest - depths .
I wonder to hear them say that Rome is sad , with all that mirth and music of its water laughing through all its streets , till the steepest and stoniest ways are murmurous with it as any brook - fed forest - depths .
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One thing you shall hear . It proves Conon's malice , and that he was the ringleader in the affair : He crowed , mimicking fighting - cocks when they have won a battle ; and his companions bade him clap his elbows against his sides ...
One thing you shall hear . It proves Conon's malice , and that he was the ringleader in the affair : He crowed , mimicking fighting - cocks when they have won a battle ; and his companions bade him clap his elbows against his sides ...
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To all the invectives of ¯schines , then , and the calumnies cast upon my private life , hear my honest and plain reply . If you know me to be such as he has described -and I have never lived anywhere but among you — then let me not be ...
To all the invectives of ¯schines , then , and the calumnies cast upon my private life , hear my honest and plain reply . If you know me to be such as he has described -and I have never lived anywhere but among you — then let me not be ...
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For yourselves , Athenians , ought not to hear private and public causes in the same temper of mind ; but as the daily transactions of life should be judged strictly , and according to the rules and practices of society , so should ...
For yourselves , Athenians , ought not to hear private and public causes in the same temper of mind ; but as the daily transactions of life should be judged strictly , and according to the rules and practices of society , so should ...
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| Pealkiri | 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 ..., 8. köide 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, John Clark Ridpath |
| Editor | John Clark Ridpath |
| Publisher | Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 aug. 2005 |
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