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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... kind have com- mended the author of that law which we are now obeying , for having instituted an oration to the honour of those who sacrifice their lives in fighting for their country . For my part , I think it sufficient for men who ...
... kind have com- mended the author of that law which we are now obeying , for having instituted an oration to the honour of those who sacrifice their lives in fighting for their country . For my part , I think it sufficient for men who ...
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... tended for the public ; and in them he may be con- is a kind of historical sketch , in which we have a view of him in some striking attitude , either of in , or enter upon some of those which I PLINY THE YOUNGER . 15.
... tended for the public ; and in them he may be con- is a kind of historical sketch , in which we have a view of him in some striking attitude , either of in , or enter upon some of those which I PLINY THE YOUNGER . 15.
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... kind , which serve as proper reliefs to , and are consistent with , employments of every sort . They com- monly go under the title of Poetical Amuse- ments ; but these amusements have sometimes gained as much reputation to their authors ...
... kind , which serve as proper reliefs to , and are consistent with , employments of every sort . They com- monly go under the title of Poetical Amuse- ments ; but these amusements have sometimes gained as much reputation to their authors ...
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... kind of music and harmony set forth , with excellent voices both of men and chil - choice , could not forbear laughing ; but dren . I have seen the king suddenly come in thither in a mask , with a dozen of other maskers , all in ...
... kind of music and harmony set forth , with excellent voices both of men and chil - choice , could not forbear laughing ; but dren . I have seen the king suddenly come in thither in a mask , with a dozen of other maskers , all in ...
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... kind of things are possible to be performed in these arts , and by what natural causes they may be . Not that I touch every particular thing of the devil's power , for that were infinite : but only to speak scholasticly ( since this ...
... kind of things are possible to be performed in these arts , and by what natural causes they may be . Not that I touch every particular thing of the devil's power , for that were infinite : but only to speak scholasticly ( since this ...
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