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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... Honour to God .. Horace , Spence on .. Human Life , Shortness of ... Humility , Selden on Hypocrite , Hall on the ....... Image - Breakers of the Netherlands ...... 505 190 Mary , Queen of Scots , Execution of ...... 515 75 Mary , Queen ...
... Honour to God .. Horace , Spence on .. Human Life , Shortness of ... Humility , Selden on Hypocrite , Hall on the ....... Image - Breakers of the Netherlands ...... 505 190 Mary , Queen of Scots , Execution of ...... 515 75 Mary , Queen ...
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... Honour ..... Trafalgar , Battle of ... Translation , Dryden on ... Travelling , Emerson on .. Trenton , Battle of ......... Truth and Sincerity ...... Unbelievers , Expostulation with .. Understanding , Weakness of ...... Union ...
... Honour ..... Trafalgar , Battle of ... Translation , Dryden on ... Travelling , Emerson on .. Trenton , Battle of ......... Truth and Sincerity ...... Unbelievers , Expostulation with .. Understanding , Weakness of ...... Union ...
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... honour of those who sacrifice their lives in fighting for their country . For my part , I think it sufficient for men who have approved their virtue in action , by ac- tion to be honoured for it - by such as you see the public gratitude ...
... honour of those who sacrifice their lives in fighting for their country . For my part , I think it sufficient for men who have approved their virtue in action , by ac- tion to be honoured for it - by such as you see the public gratitude ...
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... honour is the employ of either word or act , eternally remembered . This whole earth is a sepulchre of illustrious men ; nor is it the inscription on the col- umns in their native soil that alone shows their merit , but the memorial of ...
... honour is the employ of either word or act , eternally remembered . This whole earth is a sepulchre of illustrious men ; nor is it the inscription on the col- umns in their native soil that alone shows their merit , but the memorial of ...
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... honour . It is not my design to betray you now that you have conferred upon me a place of profit . You have committed to my conduct the war against Jugurtha . The Patricians are of fended at this . But where would be the wisdom of ...
... honour . It is not my design to betray you now that you have conferred upon me a place of profit . You have committed to my conduct the war against Jugurtha . The Patricians are of fended at this . But where would be the wisdom of ...
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2d edit admiration affection ancient appear beauty born Bost called character Christ Christian church Cicero Clovernook death delight died discourse divine Don Quixote earth Edin Edinburgh Review England English English language Essays excellent eyes fear feel genius give glory hand happiness hath heart heaven History honour human ical imagination JAMES MACKINTOSH king knowledge labour language learning Lect less Letters light live LL.D Lond look Lord Lord Macaulay Macvey Napier mankind manner ment mind moral nature ness never noble observed opinion Ovid passion Pecksniff perfect person Petrarch Phila philosopher Phrenology Plato pleasure Poems poet poetry political prose reason religion Rome Scripture Scrooge sense Sermons soul speak spirit style taste things thou thought tion translation truth unto Virgil virtue vols whole wisdom words writings