The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 - English essays |
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Alexander Chalmers. THE OBSERVER . NUMBER LII . Singula lętus Exquiritque , auditque , virum monumenta priorum . VIRGIL Of all our dealers in second - hand wares , few bring their goods to so bad a market , as those humble wits who ...
Alexander Chalmers. THE OBSERVER . NUMBER LII . Singula lętus Exquiritque , auditque , virum monumenta priorum . VIRGIL Of all our dealers in second - hand wares , few bring their goods to so bad a market , as those humble wits who ...
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... NUMBER LIII . THERE is no period of ancient history would afford a more useful study to a young prince , than an ac- curate delineation of the whole life of Tiberius : This ought to be done with great care and ability , for it is a ...
... NUMBER LIII . THERE is no period of ancient history would afford a more useful study to a young prince , than an ac- curate delineation of the whole life of Tiberius : This ought to be done with great care and ability , for it is a ...
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... number . The death of that most amiable and excellent prince , which was imputed to the machinations of Cneius Piso , involved Tiberius in some degree in the same suspicion ; but as Tacitus , in his account of the event , gives ...
... number . The death of that most amiable and excellent prince , which was imputed to the machinations of Cneius Piso , involved Tiberius in some degree in the same suspicion ; but as Tacitus , in his account of the event , gives ...
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... number of circumstances might be adduced in support of this conjecture ; it is sufficient to instance his extraordinary letter to the senate ; can words be found more expressive of a distracted and desperate state of mind than the ...
... number of circumstances might be adduced in support of this conjecture ; it is sufficient to instance his extraordinary letter to the senate ; can words be found more expressive of a distracted and desperate state of mind than the ...
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... NUMBER LIV . HOWEVER disposed we may be to execrate the bloody act of the regicides , yet we must admit the errors and misconduct of Charles's unhappy reign to be such as cannot be palliated ; in our pity for his fate we must not forget ...
... NUMBER LIV . HOWEVER disposed we may be to execrate the bloody act of the regicides , yet we must admit the errors and misconduct of Charles's unhappy reign to be such as cannot be palliated ; in our pity for his fate we must not forget ...
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Page 93 - They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.