Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... 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 . Epist . 7 ...
... 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 . Epist . 7 ...
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... characters whose writings have reached our own times , none are so interesting as those whose superscription bears the name of Tacitus . The intercourse which subsisted between this cele- brated historian and our amiable author appears ...
... characters whose writings have reached our own times , none are so interesting as those whose superscription bears the name of Tacitus . The intercourse which subsisted between this cele- brated historian and our amiable author appears ...
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... 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 and promote each other's studies . When I was 36 ...
... 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 and promote each other's studies . When I was 36 ...
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... character and conduct of his friend Spurinna , a senator of great opulence and unblemished reputation , who had passed uncorrupted through the various offices of state , had governed many provinces with the most disinterested vigilance ...
... character and conduct of his friend Spurinna , a senator of great opulence and unblemished reputation , who had passed uncorrupted through the various offices of state , had governed many provinces with the most disinterested vigilance ...
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... character . For such a man , and in circumstances too which , as we learn from the epistle I am about to quote , required a strict attention to economy , it was in perfect con- sonance with what we know of Pliny , that he should exert ...
... character . For such a man , and in circumstances too which , as we learn from the epistle I am about to quote , required a strict attention to economy , it was in perfect con- sonance with what we know of Pliny , that he should exert ...
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Mornings in Spring; Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical ..., Volume 1 Nathan Drake No preview available - 2012 |
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