Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1880 - 547 pages |
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... Character and Influence of ........ 529 Christ , Divinity of .. 290 Animals , Cruelty to ... 356 Christ , Miracles of . 247 Anjou and Elizabeth . 37 Christ and Socrates .. 265 Arts , Herschel on the ...... 402 Christian's Dependence ...
... Character and Influence of ........ 529 Christ , Divinity of .. 290 Animals , Cruelty to ... 356 Christ , Miracles of . 247 Anjou and Elizabeth . 37 Christ and Socrates .. 265 Arts , Herschel on the ...... 402 Christian's Dependence ...
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... characters . Want of birth and fortune is the objection against me ; want of personal worth against them . But are not ... character , or of mine ; what would they answer but that they should wish the worthiest to be their sons ? If the ...
... characters . Want of birth and fortune is the objection against me ; want of personal worth against them . But are not ... character , or of mine ; what would they answer but that they should wish the worthiest to be their sons ? If the ...
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... ( Character of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon , Lond . , 1827 , 8vo ) stamps Clarendon as an unprin cipled man of talent , and Brodie ( Hist . of the British Empire , Lond . , 1822 , 4 vols . 8vo ) considers him " a miserable sycophant ...
... ( Character of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon , Lond . , 1827 , 8vo ) stamps Clarendon as an unprin cipled man of talent , and Brodie ( Hist . of the British Empire , Lond . , 1822 , 4 vols . 8vo ) considers him " a miserable sycophant ...
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... CHARACTER OF CHARLES I. But it will not be unnecessary to add a short character of his person , that posterity may know the inestimable loss which the nation then underwent in being deprived of a prince whose example would have had a ...
... CHARACTER OF CHARLES I. But it will not be unnecessary to add a short character of his person , that posterity may know the inestimable loss which the nation then underwent in being deprived of a prince whose example would have had a ...
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... character I am now arrived , if we look upon him while he was himself ( for his last plays were but his dotages ) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had . He was a most severe judge of himself , as ...
... character I am now arrived , if we look upon him while he was himself ( for his last plays were but his dotages ) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had . He was a most severe judge of himself , as ...
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