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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... observations , if seldom profound , are always sensible , and show great shrewdness and sagacity . But it is in the ... observe a material difference between the behaviour of those who stand candidates for places of power and trust ...
... observations , if seldom profound , are always sensible , and show great shrewdness and sagacity . But it is in the ... observe a material difference between the behaviour of those who stand candidates for places of power and trust ...
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... observed , and their laws and customs altered accordingly , many mischiefs must follow , and the government be ruined , as we have largely demonstrated before ; but those alterations of their laws are more slow in a commonwealth ...
... observed , and their laws and customs altered accordingly , many mischiefs must follow , and the government be ruined , as we have largely demonstrated before ; but those alterations of their laws are more slow in a commonwealth ...
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... observations - often most felicitously expressed - of great depth and acuteness , and never fail to entertain with their constant eagerness and gaiety . It is not too much to say that they supply the mind with at once the best stimulus ...
... observations - often most felicitously expressed - of great depth and acuteness , and never fail to entertain with their constant eagerness and gaiety . It is not too much to say that they supply the mind with at once the best stimulus ...
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... OBSERVED FOR THE PRESERVATION OF A MAN'S ESTATE . Amongst all other things of the world take care of thy estate , which thou shalt ever preserve if thou observe three things : first , that thou know what thou hast , what every thing is ...
... OBSERVED FOR THE PRESERVATION OF A MAN'S ESTATE . Amongst all other things of the world take care of thy estate , which thou shalt ever preserve if thou observe three things : first , that thou know what thou hast , what every thing is ...
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... observations , long matured , and carefully sifted .... Few books are more quoted , and , what is not always the case ... observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and therefore show it to be the child of folly ...
... observations , long matured , and carefully sifted .... Few books are more quoted , and , what is not always the case ... observed ; both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and therefore show it to be the child of folly ...
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