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... seems to have been exalted to enthusiasm , and who submitted , as we know , to some very trying privations on the imperious requisition of his consci- ence . But from whatever source the fervid sad it spirit proceeded , in its action on ...
... seems to have been exalted to enthusiasm , and who submitted , as we know , to some very trying privations on the imperious requisition of his consci- ence . But from whatever source the fervid sad it spirit proceeded , in its action on ...
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... seems to have increased the power as well as to have given the direction ; to have invigorated the strong , enlarged the capacious , and elevated the lofty . We are unquestionably indebted to it , not merely for the subject , but for a ...
... seems to have increased the power as well as to have given the direction ; to have invigorated the strong , enlarged the capacious , and elevated the lofty . We are unquestionably indebted to it , not merely for the subject , but for a ...
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... seems in this place to be guilty of a false quan- tity , and to begin his hexameter very unwarrantably with a cre- tic . Terentianus Maurus accuses Virgil of the same inaccuracy in the line " Sõlus hic inflexit sensus , " & c ...
... seems in this place to be guilty of a false quan- tity , and to begin his hexameter very unwarrantably with a cre- tic . Terentianus Maurus accuses Virgil of the same inaccuracy in the line " Sõlus hic inflexit sensus , " & c ...
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... seems to be conclusive ; for I know not to what tribunal an appeal can be carried from the authority of a college register , and from that of asser- tions , publicly made and uncontradicted at a time when their falsehood would be jea ...
... seems to be conclusive ; for I know not to what tribunal an appeal can be carried from the authority of a college register , and from that of asser- tions , publicly made and uncontradicted at a time when their falsehood would be jea ...
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... seems to rest on too airy a foundation to be worthy of our regard . Of its admission , however , as true , we cannot perceive that any injury to the repu- tation of our author would be the necessary result . While the rod continued to ...
... seems to rest on too airy a foundation to be worthy of our regard . Of its admission , however , as true , we cannot perceive that any injury to the repu- tation of our author would be the necessary result . While the rod continued to ...
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