The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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The same may be observed in another couplet from the same author , where one branch of the antithesis is not expressed but understood : Get wealth and place , if possible ...
The same may be observed in another couplet from the same author , where one branch of the antithesis is not expressed but understood : Get wealth and place , if possible ...
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Behold moral philosophers temporising with human vices : the Epicureans are libertines , the Peripatetics avaricious , the Platonists and Stoics arrogant and vainglorious ; you may also observe the confusion of their ideas on what ...
Behold moral philosophers temporising with human vices : the Epicureans are libertines , the Peripatetics avaricious , the Platonists and Stoics arrogant and vainglorious ; you may also observe the confusion of their ideas on what ...
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After some preliminary observations , intended principally to show that he had not been anticipated in this literary project , the Editor proceeds to inform us , that , incited by a conviction of its importance , he had used every ...
After some preliminary observations , intended principally to show that he had not been anticipated in this literary project , the Editor proceeds to inform us , that , incited by a conviction of its importance , he had used every ...
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... most correct and delicate taste in the liberal arts , and who rigorously observed his own maxims , that an implicit obedience to the rules of art , as established by the Great Masters , should be exacted from the juvenile student .
... most correct and delicate taste in the liberal arts , and who rigorously observed his own maxims , that an implicit obedience to the rules of art , as established by the Great Masters , should be exacted from the juvenile student .
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Collectively , we are entitled to boast of as much eloquence , as has been exhibited in any age or country . " W } L THE DRAMA - FOR THE PORT FOLIO . SHAKSPEARE'S MERRY. These observations contain sound criticism ...
Collectively , we are entitled to boast of as much eloquence , as has been exhibited in any age or country . " W } L THE DRAMA - FOR THE PORT FOLIO . SHAKSPEARE'S MERRY. These observations contain sound criticism ...
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