The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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By the side of a fountain , Socrates , Plato , Clitomachus , Carneades , and many other academic philosophers , were seated , always doubting , never affirming anything as certain , but by force of reasoning and argument , they gave a ...
By the side of a fountain , Socrates , Plato , Clitomachus , Carneades , and many other academic philosophers , were seated , always doubting , never affirming anything as certain , but by force of reasoning and argument , they gave a ...
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... skilful in argument , but weak in execution ; and dangerous with their theories , which are never applicable to any emergency , for affairs constantly change , and periods of time differ from each other as much as human faces .
... skilful in argument , but weak in execution ; and dangerous with their theories , which are never applicable to any emergency , for affairs constantly change , and periods of time differ from each other as much as human faces .
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... in this republic , profess to perfect or mend literary works ; their audacity is so great , that they pretend to divine ideas which the authors never dreamed of , and by changing the words , change the sense , and spoil the whole .
... in this republic , profess to perfect or mend literary works ; their audacity is so great , that they pretend to divine ideas which the authors never dreamed of , and by changing the words , change the sense , and spoil the whole .
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As for myself , I can say without vanity , that I have always been considered mild and gentle , and though I have genius , I never exercised it to the injury of others . If in my youth I was free in affairs of love , I was exiled for it ...
As for myself , I can say without vanity , that I have always been considered mild and gentle , and though I have genius , I never exercised it to the injury of others . If in my youth I was free in affairs of love , I was exiled for it ...
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Eloquence has always been admired and studied , but never with more ardour and success , than by republicans . It engages particularly their attention , because it opens to them the widest avenue to distinction .
Eloquence has always been admired and studied , but never with more ardour and success , than by republicans . It engages particularly their attention , because it opens to them the widest avenue to distinction .
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 2 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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