The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Homer . Warton . 76. The Mercy of Affliction ; an Eastern Story . Warton . 77. The Mischiefs of Superstition and Infidelity . The History of Fidelia . 78. The History of Fidelia continued . Chapone . Chapone . NO . 79. The History of ...
... Homer . Warton . 76. The Mercy of Affliction ; an Eastern Story . Warton . 77. The Mischiefs of Superstition and Infidelity . The History of Fidelia . 78. The History of Fidelia continued . Chapone . Chapone . NO . 79. The History of ...
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... Homer and Thucydides , Demosthenes and Plato , may be gathered from an anecdote preserved by Menage , who affirms upon his own knowledge , that Le Fevre of Saumur furnished this assuming critic with the Greek passages he had occasion to ...
... Homer and Thucydides , Demosthenes and Plato , may be gathered from an anecdote preserved by Menage , who affirms upon his own knowledge , that Le Fevre of Saumur furnished this assuming critic with the Greek passages he had occasion to ...
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... Homer and Thucydides , Demosthenes and Plato , may be gathered from an anecdote preserved by Menage , who affirms upon his own knowledge , that Le Fevre of Saumur furnished this assuming critic with the Greek passages he had occasion to ...
... Homer and Thucydides , Demosthenes and Plato , may be gathered from an anecdote preserved by Menage , who affirms upon his own knowledge , that Le Fevre of Saumur furnished this assuming critic with the Greek passages he had occasion to ...
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... Homer , Euripides , and Ennis ? SIR , TO THE ADVENTURER . IN the library of the Benedictine monks at Lyons , has lately been discovered a most curious manu- script of the celebrated Longinus . As I know you will eagerly embrace every ...
... Homer , Euripides , and Ennis ? SIR , TO THE ADVENTURER . IN the library of the Benedictine monks at Lyons , has lately been discovered a most curious manu- script of the celebrated Longinus . As I know you will eagerly embrace every ...
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... Homer and Hesiod , in comparison of this Jeho- vah of the illiterate Jews ! before whom , to use this poet's own words , all other gods are as a drop of a bucket , and are counted as the small dust of the ba- lance . ' 6 " Had I been ...
... Homer and Hesiod , in comparison of this Jeho- vah of the illiterate Jews ! before whom , to use this poet's own words , all other gods are as a drop of a bucket , and are counted as the small dust of the ba- lance . ' 6 " Had I been ...
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Página 126 - ... with some other prey. But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every man amuses himself with projects which he knows to be improbable, and which, therefore, he resolves to pursue without daring to examine them. Whatever any man ardently desires, he very readily believes that he shall some time attain : he whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases,...