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... sentiment , extensive views , and curious observation ; the man whose re- marks on life might have assisted the states- man , whose ideas of virtue might have en- lightened the moralist ; whose eloquence might have influenced senates ...
... sentiment , extensive views , and curious observation ; the man whose re- marks on life might have assisted the states- man , whose ideas of virtue might have en- lightened the moralist ; whose eloquence might have influenced senates ...
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... sentiment than in description ; and where the country supplies nothing to ar rest the attention of his readers , his fertile mind more than supplies the deficiency . I cannot resist the temptation of transcribing one pas- sage , which ...
... sentiment than in description ; and where the country supplies nothing to ar rest the attention of his readers , his fertile mind more than supplies the deficiency . I cannot resist the temptation of transcribing one pas- sage , which ...
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... sentiments to posterity ; and as the learned and the great all corresponded with each other , letters upon interesting sub- jects were certain to be preserved by others , if not by the authors themselves . Thus Seneca's epistles are to ...
... sentiments to posterity ; and as the learned and the great all corresponded with each other , letters upon interesting sub- jects were certain to be preserved by others , if not by the authors themselves . Thus Seneca's epistles are to ...
Side 84
... sentiments or facts . The dialogues of Plato may perhaps be excused , if we consider them ( as perhaps we ought ) transcripts of the delight- ful conversations of his incomparable master . The science of that period was almost entirely ...
... sentiments or facts . The dialogues of Plato may perhaps be excused , if we consider them ( as perhaps we ought ) transcripts of the delight- ful conversations of his incomparable master . The science of that period was almost entirely ...
Side 88
... of music was undoubtedly to give force and interest to sentiment and language . Bishop Lowth has , with great labour , and not with less taste and discernment , traced the Hebrew poetry to a very early period of so- ciety 88 DESCRIPTION ...
... of music was undoubtedly to give force and interest to sentiment and language . Bishop Lowth has , with great labour , and not with less taste and discernment , traced the Hebrew poetry to a very early period of so- ciety 88 DESCRIPTION ...
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