Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... 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 ambition , his views of ...
... 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 ambition , his views of ...
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... appear quite other- wise . Ask any one how he has been employed to- day ? he will tell you , perhaps , I have been at the ceremony of investing the manly robe † ; this friend invited me to a wedding ; that desired me to attend the ...
... appear quite other- wise . Ask any one how he has been employed to- day ? he will tell you , perhaps , I have been at the ceremony of investing the manly robe † ; this friend invited me to a wedding ; that desired me to attend the ...
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... appear the height of absurdity , that of an existence so transient as that which has been allotted to our pilgrimage on earth , any portion should be spent in the pursuit of mere trifles . When man , condemned , as with few exceptions ...
... appear the height of absurdity , that of an existence so transient as that which has been allotted to our pilgrimage on earth , any portion should be spent in the pursuit of mere trifles . When man , condemned , as with few exceptions ...
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... appears to have been of the most close and confidential kind ; and the letter which I am about to quote will prove not only how mutual was their regard from a simi- larity of disposition and manners , but with what friendly zeal they ...
... appears to have been of the most close and confidential kind ; and the letter which I am about to quote will prove not only how mutual was their regard from a simi- larity of disposition and manners , but with what friendly zeal they ...
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... appear indeed that the honours and possessions thus bestowed were amply recom- pensed to the English monarch , not only by what Clifford had already done , but by what he subse- quently achieved ; for we are told that in 1306 , almost ...
... appear indeed that the honours and possessions thus bestowed were amply recom- pensed to the English monarch , not only by what Clifford had already done , but by what he subse- quently achieved ; for we are told that in 1306 , almost ...
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