The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 120
... believe that the reduced state of my health has unfitted me , almost equally , for much ex- ertion of body or mind . Unprepared for debate by careful re- flection in my retirement , or by long attention here , I thought the resolution ...
... believe that the reduced state of my health has unfitted me , almost equally , for much ex- ertion of body or mind . Unprepared for debate by careful re- flection in my retirement , or by long attention here , I thought the resolution ...
Page 139
... believe that what had appeared a matter of so much importance to them , could be treated so lightly at Paris , said that the intention had been to give the prince time to leave the island , in order to avoid the necessity of confining ...
... believe that what had appeared a matter of so much importance to them , could be treated so lightly at Paris , said that the intention had been to give the prince time to leave the island , in order to avoid the necessity of confining ...
Page 150
... believe that a book that could arrest the approbation of Longinus , is at least worthy of being read . Thousands and thousands professing Christianity , have dwelt with rapture on the passages of Homer , which this critic has cited with ...
... believe that a book that could arrest the approbation of Longinus , is at least worthy of being read . Thousands and thousands professing Christianity , have dwelt with rapture on the passages of Homer , which this critic has cited with ...
Page 173
... believe that Thuanus wrote better Latin than Cicero or Cæsar , and that Buchanan was a more elę- gant poet than Virgil or Horace . In my rhetorical lectures , and whenever I have occasion to speak on this subject to those who pay any ...
... believe that Thuanus wrote better Latin than Cicero or Cæsar , and that Buchanan was a more elę- gant poet than Virgil or Horace . In my rhetorical lectures , and whenever I have occasion to speak on this subject to those who pay any ...
Page 181
... believe Bob so implicitly that even if the dog lies , I would not be robbed of the delusion to be the first magistrate of my country . The lamp , which I illume by his bounty , is certainly a most brilliant one ; and when in a sort of ...
... believe Bob so implicitly that even if the dog lies , I would not be robbed of the delusion to be the first magistrate of my country . The lamp , which I illume by his bounty , is certainly a most brilliant one ; and when in a sort of ...
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