The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 14
... pleasure by their per- suasive powers , and raising seditions , as did Brutus , Cassius , Cato , Demosthenes , and Cicero . Poetry is the sister of Rhetoric ; she despises all the sciences , and asserts proudly her right of precedence ...
... pleasure by their per- suasive powers , and raising seditions , as did Brutus , Cassius , Cato , Demosthenes , and Cicero . Poetry is the sister of Rhetoric ; she despises all the sciences , and asserts proudly her right of precedence ...
Page 33
... than for any one man , or one class to expect that his benefit or pleasure shall be solely consulted . It is sufficient that there is something among a VOL . II . E multitude of things , which is of use to him THE SCRIBBLER . 33.
... than for any one man , or one class to expect that his benefit or pleasure shall be solely consulted . It is sufficient that there is something among a VOL . II . E multitude of things , which is of use to him THE SCRIBBLER . 33.
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... pleasure of reading these letters over with . you , we will spread a map of Paris upon the table , and go on from street to street together , and let me exhort you in the meantime , to do so as far as your patience will let you , and to ...
... pleasure of reading these letters over with . you , we will spread a map of Paris upon the table , and go on from street to street together , and let me exhort you in the meantime , to do so as far as your patience will let you , and to ...
Page 64
... pleasure even in the contemplation of such a subject , and he adds : 1 Yet to me what is this quintessence of dust ? Man delights not me , nor woman neither . He is diverted from these thoughts by the arrival of certain play- ers , by ...
... pleasure even in the contemplation of such a subject , and he adds : 1 Yet to me what is this quintessence of dust ? Man delights not me , nor woman neither . He is diverted from these thoughts by the arrival of certain play- ers , by ...
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... Pleasure , and taste all the fountains of Wisdom and Philosophy . ' وو Under this discipline , which comprehends both duty and delight , he may nobly exclaim in DRYDEN's noble phrase : We Secure and free from business of the state , And ...
... Pleasure , and taste all the fountains of Wisdom and Philosophy . ' وو Under this discipline , which comprehends both duty and delight , he may nobly exclaim in DRYDEN's noble phrase : We Secure and free from business of the state , And ...
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