Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... readers are eager for the appearance of a book , a small contribution from each makes up a splendid remuneration for the author . Where literature is a luxury , confined to few , each of them must pay high . If the Empress Catherine ...
... readers are eager for the appearance of a book , a small contribution from each makes up a splendid remuneration for the author . Where literature is a luxury , confined to few , each of them must pay high . If the Empress Catherine ...
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... readers think this skep- ticism unreasonable , let them turn to the con- temporary account of the Popish plot . them look over the votes of Parliament , and the speeches of the king ; the charges of Scroggs , and the harangues of the ...
... readers think this skep- ticism unreasonable , let them turn to the con- temporary account of the Popish plot . them look over the votes of Parliament , and the speeches of the king ; the charges of Scroggs , and the harangues of the ...
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... readers , at considerable length , what he thought of the persons whose ad- ventures he relates . But he does not show them the men , and enable them to judge for themselves . The heroes of Livy are the most insipid of all beings , real ...
... readers , at considerable length , what he thought of the persons whose ad- ventures he relates . But he does not show them the men , and enable them to judge for themselves . The heroes of Livy are the most insipid of all beings , real ...
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... readers . Many eminent Romans appear gleams of truth . But it is certain that a great to have felt the same contempt ... reading could be written in any language except his own . The feelings which sprung from national glory were not ...
... readers . Many eminent Romans appear gleams of truth . But it is certain that a great to have felt the same contempt ... reading could be written in any language except his own . The feelings which sprung from national glory were not ...
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... readers those very prejudices . It probably was not who are already acquainted with the ordinary altogether on grounds of expediency , that So- books on English history , and who can there- crates taught his followers to honour the gods ...
... readers those very prejudices . It probably was not who are already acquainted with the ordinary altogether on grounds of expediency , that So- books on English history , and who can there- crates taught his followers to honour the gods ...
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