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 614
... perfon whofe opinion has prevailed , was pre- fixed : whence , in fpeaking of it , they call it his decree . The date of it contained the name of the Archon , that of the day and month , and that of the tribe then prefiding . The bu ...
... perfon whofe opinion has prevailed , was pre- fixed : whence , in fpeaking of it , they call it his decree . The date of it contained the name of the Archon , that of the day and month , and that of the tribe then prefiding . The bu ...
Сторінка 615
... perfon entertains , that while fo many others are engaged in pub- lic bufinefs , his fervice will not be re- quired ; you then ( if Heaven fo pleases ) fhall regain your dominions , recal thofe opportunities your fupinenefs hath neg ...
... perfon entertains , that while fo many others are engaged in pub- lic bufinefs , his fervice will not be re- quired ; you then ( if Heaven fo pleases ) fhall regain your dominions , recal thofe opportunities your fupinenefs hath neg ...
Сторінка 616
... perfon from declaring his opinion : thus far am I engaged . How I can acquit myfelf , will immediately appear : to your judgments I appeal . First then , Athenians ! I fay that you fhould fit out fifty fhips of war ; and then refolve ...
... perfon from declaring his opinion : thus far am I engaged . How I can acquit myfelf , will immediately appear : to your judgments I appeal . First then , Athenians ! I fay that you fhould fit out fifty fhips of war ; and then refolve ...
Сторінка 617
... perfon . As to the numbers , Athenians ! my reafon is this : it is not at prefent in our power to provide a force able to meet him in the open field ; but we muft harrafs him by depredations : thus the war must be car- ried on at firft ...
... perfon . As to the numbers , Athenians ! my reafon is this : it is not at prefent in our power to provide a force able to meet him in the open field ; but we muft harrafs him by depredations : thus the war must be car- ried on at firft ...
Сторінка 622
... perfon ; the firft pretence , the flightest accident , overthrows him , and all his greatness is dafhed at once to the ground . For it is not , no , Atheni- ans ! it is not poffible to found a lafting power upon injuftice , perjury ...
... perfon ; the firft pretence , the flightest accident , overthrows him , and all his greatness is dafhed at once to the ground . For it is not , no , Atheni- ans ! it is not poffible to found a lafting power upon injuftice , perjury ...
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