The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 1Harper, 1905 |
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... virtue of more serious history , must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative . The style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character ; and the habits of correct writing may produce , without labor ...
... virtue of more serious history , must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative . The style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character ; and the habits of correct writing may produce , without labor ...
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... virtue : some courtiers lost their places , some patriots lost their characters ; Lord Orford's of fences vanished with his power ; and after a short vibration , the Pelham government was fixed on the old basis of the Whig aristocracy ...
... virtue : some courtiers lost their places , some patriots lost their characters ; Lord Orford's of fences vanished with his power ; and after a short vibration , the Pelham government was fixed on the old basis of the Whig aristocracy ...
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... virtue introduced him to my father ; and at Putney he might have found at least a tem- porary shelter , had not an act of indiscretion again driven him into the world . One day , reading prayers in the parish church , he most unluckily ...
... virtue introduced him to my father ; and at Putney he might have found at least a tem- porary shelter , had not an act of indiscretion again driven him into the world . One day , reading prayers in the parish church , he most unluckily ...
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... virtues ; and the fervor with which he kissed and blessed me as the sole surviving pledge of their loves . The storm of passion insensibly subsided into calmer melancholy . At a convivial meeting of his friends , Mr. Gibbon might affect ...
... virtues ; and the fervor with which he kissed and blessed me as the sole surviving pledge of their loves . The storm of passion insensibly subsided into calmer melancholy . At a convivial meeting of his friends , Mr. Gibbon might affect ...
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... virtues of the heroes of the Trojan war . From Pope's Homer to Dryden's Virgil was an easy transition ; but I know not how , from some fault in the author , the trans- lator , or the reader , the pious Æneas did not so forcibly seize on ...
... virtues of the heroes of the Trojan war . From Pope's Homer to Dryden's Virgil was an easy transition ; but I know not how , from some fault in the author , the trans- lator , or the reader , the pious Æneas did not so forcibly seize on ...
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