Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... person in the senate who sat in that house when he was consul : such multitudes are swept away in so short a space ! I am , therefore , so far from think- ing those tears of Xerxes need any apology , that in my judgment history does ...
... person in the senate who sat in that house when he was consul : such multitudes are swept away in so short a space ! I am , therefore , so far from think- ing those tears of Xerxes need any apology , that in my judgment history does ...
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... persons nearly of the same age and rank , and of some character in the republic of letters ( for since I join myself with you , I am obliged to speak of your merit with reserve ) , should thus mutually * Lib . vii . Epist . 20 . assist ...
... persons nearly of the same age and rank , and of some character in the republic of letters ( for since I join myself with you , I am obliged to speak of your merit with reserve ) , should thus mutually * Lib . vii . Epist . 20 . assist ...
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... persons of literature . Thus we " By the regimen which Pliny here follows , one would imagine , if he had not told us who were his physicians , that the celebrated Celsus was in the number . That author ex- pressly recommends reading ...
... persons of literature . Thus we " By the regimen which Pliny here follows , one would imagine , if he had not told us who were his physicians , that the celebrated Celsus was in the number . That author ex- pressly recommends reading ...
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... person of his beloved friend Suetonius , a very decided proof that he considered a taste for literature as the best pre- parative for content , and the surest mode of recon- ciling a man to a parsimonious distribution of the favours of ...
... person of his beloved friend Suetonius , a very decided proof that he considered a taste for literature as the best pre- parative for content , and the surest mode of recon- ciling a man to a parsimonious distribution of the favours of ...
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... persons of more agility than prudence , who stride from brink to brink , regardless of the destruction which awaits a faltering step . Such , according to tradition , was the fate of young Romillè , who inconsider- ately bounding over ...
... persons of more agility than prudence , who stride from brink to brink , regardless of the destruction which awaits a faltering step . Such , according to tradition , was the fate of young Romillè , who inconsider- ately bounding over ...
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Mornings in Spring; Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical ..., Volume 1 Nathan Drake No preview available - 2012 |
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