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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... RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER AS A CHRISTIAN , A PHILANTHROPIST , AND A SCHOLAR , I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME . S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE . NEW YORK , October 11 , 1879 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LIBRARY ایت 3 PREFACE . THIS volume is the fourth of.
... RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER AS A CHRISTIAN , A PHILANTHROPIST , AND A SCHOLAR , I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME . S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE . NEW YORK , October 11 , 1879 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LIBRARY ایت 3 PREFACE . THIS volume is the fourth of.
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... respect to what he wishes and what he knows ; whilst the stranger pronounceth all exaggerated , through envy of those deeds which he is conscious are above his own achievement . For the praises bestowed on others are then only to be ...
... respect to what he wishes and what he knows ; whilst the stranger pronounceth all exaggerated , through envy of those deeds which he is conscious are above his own achievement . For the praises bestowed on others are then only to be ...
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... respect with Tacitus and Clarendon . He has often been accused of partiality , but so far as our limited knowledge enables us to judge , the charge is unfounded . Like all ancient historians , with the exception of Polybius , he ...
... respect with Tacitus and Clarendon . He has often been accused of partiality , but so far as our limited knowledge enables us to judge , the charge is unfounded . Like all ancient historians , with the exception of Polybius , he ...
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... respect is due to them for the sake of a rich garment , to which they would not have pretended if they had been more meanly clothed ; and they resent it as an affront if that respect is not paid them .... Another sort of bodily pleasure ...
... respect is due to them for the sake of a rich garment , to which they would not have pretended if they had been more meanly clothed ; and they resent it as an affront if that respect is not paid them .... Another sort of bodily pleasure ...
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... respect of it , all other pleasures , in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me . " Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty ; and learning teacheth safely when experience maketh more miser- able than wise ...
... respect of it , all other pleasures , in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me . " Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty ; and learning teacheth safely when experience maketh more miser- able than wise ...
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