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... writer , whose various page , with admirable appropriateness , accommodates itself to its subject : and he is too uniformly triste in his expressions , as if he feared to venture upon those happy hazards , those adventurous splendours ...
... writer , whose various page , with admirable appropriateness , accommodates itself to its subject : and he is too uniformly triste in his expressions , as if he feared to venture upon those happy hazards , those adventurous splendours ...
Page 10
... writers had suffered more than Plutarch , from the carelessness of printers and transcribers ; and , with all his merit , it was his fate for a long time to find no able restorer . The schoolmen despised his Greek , because it had not ...
... writers had suffered more than Plutarch , from the carelessness of printers and transcribers ; and , with all his merit , it was his fate for a long time to find no able restorer . The schoolmen despised his Greek , because it had not ...
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... writer may almost be pronounced the inventor ( for the comparatively barren pages of Cornelius Nepos scarcely require to be mentioned ) , is easier of comprehension , and upon that account more generally interesting . The former , like ...
... writer may almost be pronounced the inventor ( for the comparatively barren pages of Cornelius Nepos scarcely require to be mentioned ) , is easier of comprehension , and upon that account more generally interesting . The former , like ...
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... writers ? The man would not be seen subduing the lion , if lions were sculptors From some cause or other , however , it has been the fashion , very generally , to complain of his nationality In her Hints towards forming the Character of ...
... writers ? The man would not be seen subduing the lion , if lions were sculptors From some cause or other , however , it has been the fashion , very generally , to complain of his nationality In her Hints towards forming the Character of ...
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... writers of history , who seldom dismiss a great man without pronouncing some opinion upon his merits . The Parallels , in fact , thus severely treated , have usually been considered as the most interesting part of his work ; always ...
... writers of history , who seldom dismiss a great man without pronouncing some opinion upon his merits . The Parallels , in fact , thus severely treated , have usually been considered as the most interesting part of his work ; always ...
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