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Page vii
... Against Indolence ; an Epistle 119 XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman - Mafon 122 XXI . On the Miferies of Human Life Themfon 124 XXII . Reflections on a future State Ibid . 125 XXIII . On Procraftination Young 127 attended wtth Pleasure ...
... Against Indolence ; an Epistle 119 XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman - Mafon 122 XXI . On the Miferies of Human Life Themfon 124 XXII . Reflections on a future State Ibid . 125 XXIII . On Procraftination Young 127 attended wtth Pleasure ...
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... against Jugurtha , merely on Account of his Extrac- tion IV . Callifthenes's Reproof of Cleon's Flattery to Alexander Ibid . 154 Salluft 157 Quintus Curtius Ibid . 161 162 V. The Scythian Ambaffadors to Alexander VI . Galgacus the ...
... against Jugurtha , merely on Account of his Extrac- tion IV . Callifthenes's Reproof of Cleon's Flattery to Alexander Ibid . 154 Salluft 157 Quintus Curtius Ibid . 161 162 V. The Scythian Ambaffadors to Alexander VI . Galgacus the ...
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... against vice , in the fmile of Horace , the grin of Lucian , and the frown of Juvenal . So rich and various are the treasures , with which the Greek and Roman writers furnish thofe , who have en- joyed the advantage of a claffical ...
... against vice , in the fmile of Horace , the grin of Lucian , and the frown of Juvenal . So rich and various are the treasures , with which the Greek and Roman writers furnish thofe , who have en- joyed the advantage of a claffical ...
Page lvii
... against that kind of obscurity , which is the effect of involving the fenfe in a cloud of words . At all events , a writer fhould ftudiously avoid every mode of expreffion which is unfavourable to perfpicuity : for , what can be a ...
... against that kind of obscurity , which is the effect of involving the fenfe in a cloud of words . At all events , a writer fhould ftudiously avoid every mode of expreffion which is unfavourable to perfpicuity : for , what can be a ...
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... against the intrufion of idleness and spleen . In fociety , it provides innumerable topics of converfation , which afford ample fcope for the difplay of judgment and tafte , and which might , without much diminution of focial enjoyment ...
... against the intrufion of idleness and spleen . In fociety , it provides innumerable topics of converfation , which afford ample fcope for the difplay of judgment and tafte , and which might , without much diminution of focial enjoyment ...
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