A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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Page 47
... sense of duty , however misguided , his constancy and integrity are not the less objects of our admiration . " More was a man of true genius , and of a mind enriched with all the learn ing of his time , and no one had a greater ...
... sense of duty , however misguided , his constancy and integrity are not the less objects of our admiration . " More was a man of true genius , and of a mind enriched with all the learn ing of his time , and no one had a greater ...
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... sense than a log of wood , and is as bad as he is foolish , should have many wise and good men serving him , only because he had a great heap of that metal . " THEIR NOTIONS OF HUNTING . " Among foolish pursuers of pleasure they reckon ...
... sense than a log of wood , and is as bad as he is foolish , should have many wise and good men serving him , only because he had a great heap of that metal . " THEIR NOTIONS OF HUNTING . " Among foolish pursuers of pleasure they reckon ...
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... sense of without , and since , or seethan as they spelled it , in the sense of seeing that , for which it is a contraction : the full meaning of this line , in connection with the other , I take to be , " Unless you destroy me , seeing ...
... sense of without , and since , or seethan as they spelled it , in the sense of seeing that , for which it is a contraction : the full meaning of this line , in connection with the other , I take to be , " Unless you destroy me , seeing ...
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... sense of mo- desty , or to degrade the dignity of poetry . To crown all , he had the highest reverence for religion , and the Scriptures were equally his consolation and delight : by these he strengthened those moral principles which ...
... sense of mo- desty , or to degrade the dignity of poetry . To crown all , he had the highest reverence for religion , and the Scriptures were equally his consolation and delight : by these he strengthened those moral principles which ...
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... sense of " rare and uncommon . " Here it seems to mean " something worth possessing : " for the sense of the passage is " once gotten not worth pos sessing . " 4 " Jewel of jeopardy ; " that is , a jewel which there is much danger of ...
... sense of " rare and uncommon . " Here it seems to mean " something worth possessing : " for the sense of the passage is " once gotten not worth pos sessing . " 4 " Jewel of jeopardy ; " that is , a jewel which there is much danger of ...
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