The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... writing or in judging ill . The words writing and judging are opposed to each other , and are , therefore , the emphatical words : where we may likewise observe , that the disjunctive conjunction , or , by which the antithesis is ...
... writing or in judging ill . The words writing and judging are opposed to each other , and are , therefore , the emphatical words : where we may likewise observe , that the disjunctive conjunction , or , by which the antithesis is ...
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... write the wars of the Peloponnesus . There , with a profound air , is Polybius , who wrote , in forty books , the history of the Romans , of which only five have escaped the destroy- ing power of Time , but not the malice of Sebastian ...
... write the wars of the Peloponnesus . There , with a profound air , is Polybius , who wrote , in forty books , the history of the Romans , of which only five have escaped the destroy- ing power of Time , but not the malice of Sebastian ...
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... writers , but this is softened by the encomiums he re- ceived from others . Pliny calls him eloquent , Vopisco fertile , Espar- ciano pure and candid , Bodino penetrating , and Sidonius worthy of all praise . I remarked the ornamented ...
... writers , but this is softened by the encomiums he re- ceived from others . Pliny calls him eloquent , Vopisco fertile , Espar- ciano pure and candid , Bodino penetrating , and Sidonius worthy of all praise . I remarked the ornamented ...
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... write were present at the occurrences they state , or if present they could not see every thing themselves ; nor ... writers of bad disposition , aided by the quickness of their genius , interpret malignantly the proceedings of ...
... write were present at the occurrences they state , or if present they could not see every thing themselves ; nor ... writers of bad disposition , aided by the quickness of their genius , interpret malignantly the proceedings of ...
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... writing , since authors are one of their principal curses . Plato alone , more enlightened than the rest , knew that felicity could not be found in terrestrial things , but only in a union with the supreme good ; for while man lives ...
... writing , since authors are one of their principal curses . Plato alone , more enlightened than the rest , knew that felicity could not be found in terrestrial things , but only in a union with the supreme good ; for while man lives ...
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