The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 1David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher Munroe & Francis, 1804 vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... than nothing and vanity , what fhall we think of ourselves , or what terms can we use , fufficiently diminutive to exprefs our littleness and unimportance ? All creation cries , Give glory to God . For 8 THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY .
... than nothing and vanity , what fhall we think of ourselves , or what terms can we use , fufficiently diminutive to exprefs our littleness and unimportance ? All creation cries , Give glory to God . For 8 THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY .
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... use only the language of familiar couver- fation . " We present the following extracts from his letters , as fpeci- mens of his familiar ftyle and fentiments . By thefe the reader may anticipate the manner and excellence of the whole ...
... use only the language of familiar couver- fation . " We present the following extracts from his letters , as fpeci- mens of his familiar ftyle and fentiments . By thefe the reader may anticipate the manner and excellence of the whole ...
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... use they are now made public . " To affert a claim to originality in fuch a work as this , would perhaps on- ly be equivalent to a confeffion of its demerit . My pretenfions to public regard must depend in no small degree upon the ...
... use they are now made public . " To affert a claim to originality in fuch a work as this , would perhaps on- ly be equivalent to a confeffion of its demerit . My pretenfions to public regard must depend in no small degree upon the ...
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... use the appofite and beautiful illustration of Quintilian , resemble the stream , that is carried through a channel , formed by art for its courfe ; but rather let him be like those bold rivers , which overflow a whole valley ; and ...
... use the appofite and beautiful illustration of Quintilian , resemble the stream , that is carried through a channel , formed by art for its courfe ; but rather let him be like those bold rivers , which overflow a whole valley ; and ...
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... use , we may conclude with great probability , that it was defigned for that very end . But without wifhing to deny the right ap . plication of the human head , by the fashionable world , I would fuggeft the poffibility , that it may ...
... use , we may conclude with great probability , that it was defigned for that very end . But without wifhing to deny the right ap . plication of the human head , by the fashionable world , I would fuggeft the poffibility , that it may ...
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