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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... equal , and immediately pronounce it false . Yet , as this solemnity has received its sanction from the authority of our ancestors , it is my duty to obey the law , and to endeavour to procure , so far as I am able , the good will and ...
... equal , and immediately pronounce it false . Yet , as this solemnity has received its sanction from the authority of our ancestors , it is my duty to obey the law , and to endeavour to procure , so far as I am able , the good will and ...
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... equal value to the public , who have no chil- dren to expose to danger for its safety . But you whose age is already far advanced , com- pute the greater share of happiness your longer time hath afforded for so much gain ; persuaded in ...
... equal value to the public , who have no chil- dren to expose to danger for its safety . But you whose age is already far advanced , com- pute the greater share of happiness your longer time hath afforded for so much gain ; persuaded in ...
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... equal ? Thus your Patrician general would , in fact , have a general over him ; so that the acting commander would still be a Plebeian . So true is this , my countrymen , that I have myself known those who have been chosen consuls begin ...
... equal ? Thus your Patrician general would , in fact , have a general over him ; so that the acting commander would still be a Plebeian . So true is this , my countrymen , that I have myself known those who have been chosen consuls begin ...
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... equal . Fortune mocks us ; she turns us on her wheel : she raises and abases us at her pleasure , but her power is founded on our weakness . This is an old - rooted evil , but it is not incurable : there is nothing a firm and elevated ...
... equal . Fortune mocks us ; she turns us on her wheel : she raises and abases us at her pleasure , but her power is founded on our weakness . This is an old - rooted evil , but it is not incurable : there is nothing a firm and elevated ...
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... equal Philoxenus in poesy , and Plato in dis- course , condemned one to the quarries , and sent the other to be sold for a slave into the island of Egina . MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA , author of Don Quixote , was born at Alcata de ...
... equal Philoxenus in poesy , and Plato in dis- course , condemned one to the quarries , and sent the other to be sold for a slave into the island of Egina . MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA , author of Don Quixote , was born at Alcata de ...
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