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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... spirit . Nature gave you , my friend , the heart of a king , but she gave you not a kingdom , of which therefore fortune could not deprive you . But I doubt whether our age can fur- nish an example of worse or better treatment from her ...
... spirit . Nature gave you , my friend , the heart of a king , but she gave you not a kingdom , of which therefore fortune could not deprive you . But I doubt whether our age can fur- nish an example of worse or better treatment from her ...
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... spirit , man , and be not afraid to do thine office . My neck is very short . Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty . ' The executioner offered to tie his eyes . I will cover them myself , ' he said ...
... spirit , man , and be not afraid to do thine office . My neck is very short . Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty . ' The executioner offered to tie his eyes . I will cover them myself , ' he said ...
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... spirit of humanity . " - TICK NOR : Hist . of Spanish Lit. , 3d Amer . edit . , Boston , 1863 , ii . 146 : Second Part of The Don Quixote . DESCRIPTION OF DON QUIXOTE . ' Tis so much to be a king , that he only is so by being so ; the ...
... spirit of humanity . " - TICK NOR : Hist . of Spanish Lit. , 3d Amer . edit . , Boston , 1863 , ii . 146 : Second Part of The Don Quixote . DESCRIPTION OF DON QUIXOTE . ' Tis so much to be a king , that he only is so by being so ; the ...
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... spirit ? His books and his pictures ever accompanied him in his voyages . Even in the short hour before his last ... spirits , which want benevolence , suppose your power impaired by a disability of doing injuries . If want of power to ...
... spirit ? His books and his pictures ever accompanied him in his voyages . Even in the short hour before his last ... spirits , which want benevolence , suppose your power impaired by a disability of doing injuries . If want of power to ...
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... spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion . You must except , nevertheless , Marcus Antonius , the ... spirit : and study rather behaviour than virtue . But this holds not always : for Augustus Cæsar , Titus Vespasianus ...
... spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion . You must except , nevertheless , Marcus Antonius , the ... spirit : and study rather behaviour than virtue . But this holds not always : for Augustus Cæsar , Titus Vespasianus ...
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