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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... hope attendant upon want , that poverty at length might be exchanged for affluence . One passion there was in their minds much stronger than these , the desire of vengeance on their enemies . Regarding this as the most honourable prize ...
... hope attendant upon want , that poverty at length might be exchanged for affluence . One passion there was in their minds much stronger than these , the desire of vengeance on their enemies . Regarding this as the most honourable prize ...
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... hope . For this reason , the parents of those who are now gone , whoever of them may be at- tending here , I do not bewail , —I shall rather comfort . It is well known to what unhappy accidents they were liable from the moment of their ...
... hope . For this reason , the parents of those who are now gone , whoever of them may be at- tending here , I do not bewail , —I shall rather comfort . It is well known to what unhappy accidents they were liable from the moment of their ...
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... hope , of the propagators of this slanderous imputation , one whose life and actions condemn him in the opinion of all impartial persons , but who , according to his own reckoning , and declared dependence upon his riches , is already ...
... hope , of the propagators of this slanderous imputation , one whose life and actions condemn him in the opinion of all impartial persons , but who , according to his own reckoning , and declared dependence upon his riches , is already ...
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... hope , duly sensible of the im- portance of the office I propose to take upon me for the service of my country . To carry on , with effect , an expensive war , and yet be frugal of the public money ; to oblige those to serve , whom it ...
... hope , duly sensible of the im- portance of the office I propose to take upon me for the service of my country . To carry on , with effect , an expensive war , and yet be frugal of the public money ; to oblige those to serve , whom it ...
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... hope I may answer the cavils of the Patricians by stand- ing up in defence of what I have myself done . Is it Observe now , my countrymen , the in- justice of the Patricians . They arrogate to themselves honours on account of the ex ...
... hope I may answer the cavils of the Patricians by stand- ing up in defence of what I have myself done . Is it Observe now , my countrymen , the in- justice of the Patricians . They arrogate to themselves honours on account of the ex ...
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