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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... writings will bear no comparison as to philosophic depth and insight with the immortal work of the Greek historian . Yet his observations , if seldom profound , are always sensible , and show great shrewdness and sagacity . But it is in ...
... writings will bear no comparison as to philosophic depth and insight with the immortal work of the Greek historian . Yet his observations , if seldom profound , are always sensible , and show great shrewdness and sagacity . But it is in ...
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... writings of Petrarch . It appears that , both by himself and by his contemporaries , these were far more highly valued than his compositions in the ver- nacular language . Posterity , the supreme court of literary appeal , has not only ...
... writings of Petrarch . It appears that , both by himself and by his contemporaries , these were far more highly valued than his compositions in the ver- nacular language . Posterity , the supreme court of literary appeal , has not only ...
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... writings we now propose to consider . The terms in which he is commonly described would seem to import that he was the Tempter , the Evil Principle , the discoverer of ambition and revenge , the original inventor of perjury , and that ...
... writings we now propose to consider . The terms in which he is commonly described would seem to import that he was the Tempter , the Evil Principle , the discoverer of ambition and revenge , the original inventor of perjury , and that ...
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... books : the first speaking of magic in general , and nec- romancy in special ; the second , of sorcery and ... writings , remind us frequently of [ Jeremy ] Tay- lor . Both had equally pious and devotional tem- pers ; both were ...
... books : the first speaking of magic in general , and nec- romancy in special ; the second , of sorcery and ... writings , remind us frequently of [ Jeremy ] Tay- lor . Both had equally pious and devotional tem- pers ; both were ...
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... writings these two great divines resemble each other , on the whole , so much , that we might for a short time not discover which we were reading . I do not know that any third writer comes close to either . " - HALLAM : Lit. Hist . of ...
... writings these two great divines resemble each other , on the whole , so much , that we might for a short time not discover which we were reading . I do not know that any third writer comes close to either . " - HALLAM : Lit. Hist . of ...
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