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... learned ease , " Those friendly colours exquisitely join'd " To form th ' enchanting picture of thy mind ; " Thine was the praise bright models to afford " To Cæsar's rival pen and rival sword , " & c . Xenophon was much studied by the ...
... learned ease , " Those friendly colours exquisitely join'd " To form th ' enchanting picture of thy mind ; " Thine was the praise bright models to afford " To Cæsar's rival pen and rival sword , " & c . Xenophon was much studied by the ...
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... learned , the manly , the much injured Buchanan . Whether we re- gard his clearness , his spirit , his love of free- dom , or his pure latinity , his history will de- serve to rank with some of the best that issued from the antient ...
... learned , the manly , the much injured Buchanan . Whether we re- gard his clearness , his spirit , his love of free- dom , or his pure latinity , his history will de- serve to rank with some of the best that issued from the antient ...
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... learned countryman , Strype , also published annals of the Reformation , which is a work of high authority , but deficient in elegance . If we except Froissart , whom yet we may almost account an Englishman , the title of chronicles has ...
... learned countryman , Strype , also published annals of the Reformation , which is a work of high authority , but deficient in elegance . If we except Froissart , whom yet we may almost account an Englishman , the title of chronicles has ...
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... learned . I do not relish his parallels . The lives of no two people can be so much alike as to admit of a close comparison , and Plutarch's are often fanciful and vague ; besides that , I cannot see the utility of them . When I first ...
... learned . I do not relish his parallels . The lives of no two people can be so much alike as to admit of a close comparison , and Plutarch's are often fanciful and vague ; besides that , I cannot see the utility of them . When I first ...
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... public will soon be accommodated with an unexceptionable work of this nature , under the superintendance of our amiable and learned friend Dr. Aikin . LETTER XXIII . Voyages and Travels . - Anson . BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY . 59.
... public will soon be accommodated with an unexceptionable work of this nature , under the superintendance of our amiable and learned friend Dr. Aikin . LETTER XXIII . Voyages and Travels . - Anson . BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY . 59.
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