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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... Style of the ....... 89 9 Scrooge's Christmas ..... 495 Sea , Purchas on the ....... Self - Culture 46 352 Self ... Style , Blair on ...... 118 459 199 40 16 104 202 Protestant Infallibility . Style , Melmoth on ....... 143 Sublime ...
... Style of the ....... 89 9 Scrooge's Christmas ..... 495 Sea , Purchas on the ....... Self - Culture 46 352 Self ... Style , Blair on ...... 118 459 199 40 16 104 202 Protestant Infallibility . Style , Melmoth on ....... 143 Sublime ...
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... style of dispute and conten- tion . As land is improved by sowing with various seeds , so is the mind by exercising it with different studies . I would recom- mend it to you , therefore , sometimes to single out a fine passage of ...
... style of dispute and conten- tion . As land is improved by sowing with various seeds , so is the mind by exercising it with different studies . I would recom- mend it to you , therefore , sometimes to single out a fine passage of ...
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... style . It seems to be framed upon the model of the Tusculan Questions , -with what success those who have read it may easily determine . It consists of a series of dialogues : in each of these a person is introduced who has experienced ...
... style . It seems to be framed upon the model of the Tusculan Questions , -with what success those who have read it may easily determine . It consists of a series of dialogues : in each of these a person is introduced who has experienced ...
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... style of Cavendish .... Our great poet has literally followed him in several passages of his King Henry VIII . , merely putting his importance of the work , as the only sure and au- Add to this the historical language into verse ...
... style of Cavendish .... Our great poet has literally followed him in several passages of his King Henry VIII . , merely putting his importance of the work , as the only sure and au- Add to this the historical language into verse ...
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... style ( not like those who , counting obscurity to be elegancy , weed out all the hard words they meet in authors ) : wit- ness his Epistles , ' which some say are the only Latin ones extant of any Englishman , and if so , the more the ...
... style ( not like those who , counting obscurity to be elegancy , weed out all the hard words they meet in authors ) : wit- ness his Epistles , ' which some say are the only Latin ones extant of any Englishman , and if so , the more the ...
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