Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... honour + . " It would appear from the letter just quoted , that Pliny , like his uncle , coveted nothing so much as the opportunity of literary retirement ; and that , despising the allurements of vulgar popularity and common - place ...
... honour + . " It would appear from the letter just quoted , that Pliny , like his uncle , coveted nothing so much as the opportunity of literary retirement ; and that , despising the allurements of vulgar popularity and common - place ...
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... honour- able repose ! more , perhaps , to be desired than em- ployments of any kind ! Thou solemn sea and solitary shore , best and most retired scene for contemplation , with how many noble thoughts have you inspired * The winter ...
... honour- able repose ! more , perhaps , to be desired than em- ployments of any kind ! Thou solemn sea and solitary shore , best and most retired scene for contemplation , with how many noble thoughts have you inspired * The winter ...
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... honour to his character , which informs us , that when this prince had at- tentively surveyed his immense army , he could not forbear weeping , from the reflection that so many thousand lives would so soon be extinct . The * Lib . iii ...
... honour to his character , which informs us , that when this prince had at- tentively surveyed his immense army , he could not forbear weeping , from the reflection that so many thousand lives would so soon be extinct . The * Lib . iii ...
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... honour of Lucullus , that , while he governed Asia as Proconsul , many great estates were left to him by will . And Nepos tells us , in praise of Atticus , that he succeeded to many inheritances of the same kind , bequeathed to him on ...
... honour of Lucullus , that , while he governed Asia as Proconsul , many great estates were left to him by will . And Nepos tells us , in praise of Atticus , that he succeeded to many inheritances of the same kind , bequeathed to him on ...
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... 7 The barony , or honour and fee of Skipton in Craven , had been , before the Norman conquest , the property of earl Edwin , son of Leofwine , and brother of Leofric , earls of Mercia . On the establishment 54 MORNINGS IN SPRING .
... 7 The barony , or honour and fee of Skipton in Craven , had been , before the Norman conquest , the property of earl Edwin , son of Leofwine , and brother of Leofric , earls of Mercia . On the establishment 54 MORNINGS IN SPRING .
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