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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... interest , to screen him from condign punishment , my whole safety depends upon myself ; which renders it the more indispensably necessary for me to take care that my conduct be clear and unexceptionable . Besides , I am well aware , my ...
... interest , to screen him from condign punishment , my whole safety depends upon myself ; which renders it the more indispensably necessary for me to take care that my conduct be clear and unexceptionable . Besides , I am well aware , my ...
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... interest , my countrymen , when I served you for no reward but that 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 ...
... interest , my countrymen , when I served you for no reward but that 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 ...
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... interest . Superiority and inferiority , dominion and subjection , are bound to a natural envy and contest , and must necessarily perpetually intrench upon one another . I neither be- lieve the one nor the other touching the rights of ...
... interest . Superiority and inferiority , dominion and subjection , are bound to a natural envy and contest , and must necessarily perpetually intrench upon one another . I neither be- lieve the one nor the other touching the rights of ...
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... interest in religion , which is the cause that for one native there be five strangers that sojourn in this city ; and without any distinction or mark of strangeness , they come to prefer- ments and offices , both in church and state ...
... interest in religion , which is the cause that for one native there be five strangers that sojourn in this city ; and without any distinction or mark of strangeness , they come to prefer- ments and offices , both in church and state ...
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... interest or estate , alliance or friendship , could raise himself to such a height , and compound and knead such oppo- site and contradictory tempers , humours , and interests into a consistence that contributed to his designs , and to ...
... interest or estate , alliance or friendship , could raise himself to such a height , and compound and knead such oppo- site and contradictory tempers , humours , and interests into a consistence that contributed to his designs , and to ...
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