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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... Learning , Useless ........ 145 Good Breeding , Chesterfield on .. 166 Lexicography , Johnson on ........ 182 Good Breeding , Warton on .... 218 Liberty and Government .. 83 Good Works , Franklin on 173 Libraries , Roman .. 247 ...
... Learning , Useless ........ 145 Good Breeding , Chesterfield on .. 166 Lexicography , Johnson on ........ 182 Good Breeding , Warton on .... 218 Liberty and Government .. 83 Good Works , Franklin on 173 Libraries , Roman .. 247 ...
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... Learning of ... 520 Words , Morality in .. 304 Words , Study of .... 12 Work , Carlyle on ... 437 174 358 134 266 178 87 107 94 80 80 42 26 289 160 474 474 415 GREAT AUTHORS OF ALL AGES . polity , and by xvi INDEX OF SUBJECTS .
... Learning of ... 520 Words , Morality in .. 304 Words , Study of .... 12 Work , Carlyle on ... 437 174 358 134 266 178 87 107 94 80 80 42 26 289 160 474 474 415 GREAT AUTHORS OF ALL AGES . polity , and by xvi INDEX OF SUBJECTS .
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... learning and virtues reaching the ears of Margaret , Countess of Richmond , mother of Henry VII . , she chose him her chap- lain and confessor ; in which high station he be- haved himself with so much wisdom and goodness that she ...
... learning and virtues reaching the ears of Margaret , Countess of Richmond , mother of Henry VII . , she chose him her chap- lain and confessor ; in which high station he be- haved himself with so much wisdom and goodness that she ...
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... learning , I will gladly report ; which may be heard with some pleasure and followed with more profit . Before I ... learning , that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him . And when I am called from him , I fall on weeping ...
... learning , I will gladly report ; which may be heard with some pleasure and followed with more profit . Before I ... learning , that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him . And when I am called from him , I fall on weeping ...
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... learning , ingenuity , wisdom . and everlasting object , instead of displaying it in its true colours and real proportions . " - HAZLITT : Lects . on the Dramat . Art of the Age of Elizabeth , Lect . V. Horace Walpole also thought ...
... learning , ingenuity , wisdom . and everlasting object , instead of displaying it in its true colours and real proportions . " - HAZLITT : Lects . on the Dramat . Art of the Age of Elizabeth , Lect . V. Horace Walpole also thought ...
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