The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... thing . When this opposition is expressed in words , it forms an antithesis , the opposite parts of which are always ... things exclusively of the other . The same may be observed in another couplet from the same author , where one ...
... thing . When this opposition is expressed in words , it forms an antithesis , the opposite parts of which are always ... things exclusively of the other . The same may be observed in another couplet from the same author , where one ...
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... things good , others bad . They lived in continual inquietude ; avoiding this and seeking that ; more de- serving of applause , the Stoics considered all events indifferent ; nei- ther desired nor feared them , nor did their happiness ...
... things good , others bad . They lived in continual inquietude ; avoiding this and seeking that ; more de- serving of applause , the Stoics considered all events indifferent ; nei- ther desired nor feared them , nor did their happiness ...
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... thing but barbers ' shops , I inquired the reason why there was so many of this trade in a place inhabited by ... things in this republic that would provoke the most saturnine to laughter , that this curiosity can be excused only ...
... thing but barbers ' shops , I inquired the reason why there was so many of this trade in a place inhabited by ... things in this republic that would provoke the most saturnine to laughter , that this curiosity can be excused only ...
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... things , while they know nothing of themselves , their 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 ...
... things , while they know nothing of themselves , their 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 ...
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... thing themselves ; nor were they called to the councils of princes and infor- med of the public and private motives of their actions . Too often from the success of an event they form their ideas of its having been plan- ned , and some ...
... thing themselves ; nor were they called to the councils of princes and infor- med of the public and private motives of their actions . Too often from the success of an event they form their ideas of its having been plan- ned , and some ...
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