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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... give out , so much as honour . To you , the sons and brothers of the de- ceased , whatever number of you are here , a field of hardy contention is opened . For him who no longer is , every one is ready to commend ; so that to whatever ...
... give out , so much as honour . To you , the sons and brothers of the de- ceased , whatever number of you are here , a field of hardy contention is opened . For him who no longer is , every one is ready to commend ; so that to whatever ...
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... give the finishing blow to the war , Fabius opposed it most earnestly , as one who could not force or dissemble his ... gives a pitiful and touching account of his appearance before his persecutors , wearing an old threadbare Bristol ...
... give the finishing blow to the war , Fabius opposed it most earnestly , as one who could not force or dissemble his ... gives a pitiful and touching account of his appearance before his persecutors , wearing an old threadbare Bristol ...
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... give or maintain health . But they are not pleasant in themselves , otherwise than as they resist those impressions that our natural infirmity is still making upon us ; and as a wise man desires rather to avoid diseases than take physic ...
... give or maintain health . But they are not pleasant in themselves , otherwise than as they resist those impressions that our natural infirmity is still making upon us ; and as a wise man desires rather to avoid diseases than take physic ...
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... give a sincere judgment , by reason that there are few wherein we have not in some sort a par- ticular interest . Superiority and inferiority , dominion and subjection , are bound to a natural envy and contest , and must necessarily ...
... give a sincere judgment , by reason that there are few wherein we have not in some sort a par- ticular interest . Superiority and inferiority , dominion and subjection , are bound to a natural envy and contest , and must necessarily ...
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... give them all advantages of honour , so do we soothe and authorize all their vices and defects , not only by approbation , but by imi- tation also . Every one of Alexander's fol- lowers carried their heads on one side , as he did ; and ...
... give them all advantages of honour , so do we soothe and authorize all their vices and defects , not only by approbation , but by imi- tation also . Every one of Alexander's fol- lowers carried their heads on one side , as he did ; and ...
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