The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... soul , free from the slavery of adulation , you perceive Plutarch , so versed in politics and military art , that as Bodius observes , he might be taken for arbiter in either . VOL . II . B The other with calm and gentle countenance ...
... soul , free from the slavery of adulation , you perceive Plutarch , so versed in politics and military art , that as Bodius observes , he might be taken for arbiter in either . VOL . II . B The other with calm and gentle countenance ...
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... souls , is Xenophon . Diogenes Laertius called him the attic Muse ; others , with more propriety , the attic Bee . He whose robe is short but smooth , is Sallust , the enemy of Cicero , in whose brevity is comprehended all that ...
... souls , is Xenophon . Diogenes Laertius called him the attic Muse ; others , with more propriety , the attic Bee . He whose robe is short but smooth , is Sallust , the enemy of Cicero , in whose brevity is comprehended all that ...
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... , the prize of virtue , and tranquillity of the soul , while they are themselves the most rebellicus , the most prone to anger , blindly devoted to love , to en- 1 vy , to avarice , to ambition , most THE LITERARY REPUBLIC . 13.
... , the prize of virtue , and tranquillity of the soul , while they are themselves the most rebellicus , the most prone to anger , blindly devoted to love , to en- 1 vy , to avarice , to ambition , most THE LITERARY REPUBLIC . 13.
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... souls being more rude than unhewn marble , and more savage than the beasts of the forest : at these I laugh , and esteem those only who , though ignorant of the sciences , know how to govern their pas- sions and affections . I laugh ...
... souls being more rude than unhewn marble , and more savage than the beasts of the forest : at these I laugh , and esteem those only who , though ignorant of the sciences , know how to govern their pas- sions and affections . I laugh ...
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... souls and fill theim with vanity and the rage of disputing , to the great prejudice of modesty and decorum , the best support of their virtue . I pitied the father , whose old age was rendered miserable by the lasciviousness of his ...
... souls and fill theim with vanity and the rage of disputing , to the great prejudice of modesty and decorum , the best support of their virtue . I pitied the father , whose old age was rendered miserable by the lasciviousness of his ...
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