Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Том 2B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 стор. |
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Сторінка 621
... less than the gracious inter- pofition of Heaven itself . It must , there- fore , be our care ( Athenians ! ) that we ourfelves may not fruftrate this goodness . For it must reflect disgrace , nay , the fouleft infamy upon us , if we ...
... less than the gracious inter- pofition of Heaven itself . It must , there- fore , be our care ( Athenians ! ) that we ourfelves may not fruftrate this goodness . For it must reflect disgrace , nay , the fouleft infamy upon us , if we ...
Сторінка 658
... less to fupport than acquire ; for all these fer- vices , I fay , joined to my fingular zeal for your intereft , and that unwearied diligence you fee me exert to preferve the state ; I require nothing more of you than the per- petual ...
... less to fupport than acquire ; for all these fer- vices , I fay , joined to my fingular zeal for your intereft , and that unwearied diligence you fee me exert to preferve the state ; I require nothing more of you than the per- petual ...
Сторінка 680
... less against the com- monwealth than against private perfons , against the remoteft as well as the neareft , ftrangers as well as relations ; but the amazing patience of Rome was become , I know not how , perfectly hardened and cal ...
... less against the com- monwealth than against private perfons , against the remoteft as well as the neareft , ftrangers as well as relations ; but the amazing patience of Rome was become , I know not how , perfectly hardened and cal ...
Сторінка 698
... less than his . If , then , that friend demand why Brutus rofe against Cæfar ? this is my answer- Not that I loved Cæfar lefs , but that I loved Rome more . Had you rather Cæfar were , and die all flaves ; than that Cæfar were dead , to ...
... less than his . If , then , that friend demand why Brutus rofe against Cæfar ? this is my answer- Not that I loved Cæfar lefs , but that I loved Rome more . Had you rather Cæfar were , and die all flaves ; than that Cæfar were dead , to ...
Сторінка 715
... less now , when he was old . There was one lady , however , called Cæfellia , with whom he kept up a particular familiarity and cor- relpondence of letters ; on which Dio ab- furdly grounds fome little fcandal , though he owns her to ...
... less now , when he was old . There was one lady , however , called Cæfellia , with whom he kept up a particular familiarity and cor- relpondence of letters ; on which Dio ab- furdly grounds fome little fcandal , though he owns her to ...
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