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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... pass the soundest judgment , and are quick at catch- ing the right apprehensions of things ; not thinking that words are prejudicial to actions , but rather the not being duly pre- pared by previous debate before we are obliged to ...
... pass the soundest judgment , and are quick at catch- ing the right apprehensions of things ; not thinking that words are prejudicial to actions , but rather the not being duly pre- pared by previous debate before we are obliged to ...
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... pass over the shameful irregularities of his youth , what does his quæstorship , the first public employment he held , what does it exhibit but one continued scene of vil- lanies ? Cneius Carbo plundered of the pub- lic money by his own ...
... pass over the shameful irregularities of his youth , what does his quæstorship , the first public employment he held , what does it exhibit but one continued scene of vil- lanies ? Cneius Carbo plundered of the pub- lic money by his own ...
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... passing through the spiritual ways of the eyes , as the porches and halls of common sense and imagination ; it enters ... pass the first years of this life in the shades of ignorance , the succeeding ones in pain and labour , the latter ...
... passing through the spiritual ways of the eyes , as the porches and halls of common sense and imagination ; it enters ... pass the first years of this life in the shades of ignorance , the succeeding ones in pain and labour , the latter ...
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... pass his army into Africa to give the finishing blow to the war , Fabius opposed it most earnestly , as one who could not force or dissemble his nature , which was rather to support wisely against the difficulties that were upon him ...
... pass his army into Africa to give the finishing blow to the war , Fabius opposed it most earnestly , as one who could not force or dissemble his nature , which was rather to support wisely against the difficulties that were upon him ...
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... pass , thou mayest read in the twenty - third of the Acts : I will not be tedious unto thee here with the re- Now , to descend from the Apostles to the martyrs that followed next in Christ's church , and in them likewise to declare how ...
... pass , thou mayest read in the twenty - third of the Acts : I will not be tedious unto thee here with the re- Now , to descend from the Apostles to the martyrs that followed next in Christ's church , and in them likewise to declare how ...
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