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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... tion to be honoured for it - by such as you see the public gratitude now performing about this funeral ; and that the virtues of many ought not to be endangered by the manage- ment of any one person , when their credit must precariously ...
... tion to be honoured for it - by such as you see the public gratitude now performing about this funeral ; and that the virtues of many ought not to be endangered by the manage- ment of any one person , when their credit must precariously ...
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... tion are such that many years under the wisest and best of prætors will not be suffi- cient to restore things to the condition in which he found them . For it is notorious that during the time of his tyranny the Sicilians neither ...
... tion are such that many years under the wisest and best of prætors will not be suffi- cient to restore things to the condition in which he found them . For it is notorious that during the time of his tyranny the Sicilians neither ...
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... tion . And it is the same in a common- wealth : if the variation of the times be not observed , and their laws and customs altered accordingly , many mischiefs must follow , and the government be ruined , as we have largely demonstrated ...
... tion . And it is the same in a common- wealth : if the variation of the times be not observed , and their laws and customs altered accordingly , many mischiefs must follow , and the government be ruined , as we have largely demonstrated ...
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... tion are likewise made pleasant to us . how miserable a thing would life be , if these daily diseases of hunger and thirst were to be carried off by such bitter drugs as we must use for those diseases that return sel- domer upon us ...
... tion are likewise made pleasant to us . how miserable a thing would life be , if these daily diseases of hunger and thirst were to be carried off by such bitter drugs as we must use for those diseases that return sel- domer upon us ...
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... tion the glory attending this refusal , wherein there may lurk worse ambition than even in the desire itself and fruition of greatness ? Forasmuch as ambition never comports itself better according to itself than when it pro- ceeds by ...
... tion the glory attending this refusal , wherein there may lurk worse ambition than even in the desire itself and fruition of greatness ? Forasmuch as ambition never comports itself better according to itself than when it pro- ceeds by ...
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