The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 4William Durell & Company, 1811 |
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... kings , consuls , proconsuls , prætors , and the like characters of importance , but of some of the poets , and of several who had won the prizes at the Olym- pic games . It was a noble time , says Cynthio , when trips and Cornish hugs ...
... kings , consuls , proconsuls , prætors , and the like characters of importance , but of some of the poets , and of several who had won the prizes at the Olym- pic games . It was a noble time , says Cynthio , when trips and Cornish hugs ...
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... kings of Syria . For this too is an advantage medals have over books , that they tell their story much quicker , and sum up a whole vo- lume in twenty or thirty reverses . They are indeede the best epitomes in the world , and let you ...
... kings of Syria . For this too is an advantage medals have over books , that they tell their story much quicker , and sum up a whole vo- lume in twenty or thirty reverses . They are indeede the best epitomes in the world , and let you ...
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... is concerned in both . As for the other figure , we may have occasion to speak of it in an- other place . Vid . 15 figure . King of France's me- dallions . The next figure shadows out Eternity * to us , 52 DIALOGUES ON MEDALS .
... is concerned in both . As for the other figure , we may have occasion to speak of it in an- other place . Vid . 15 figure . King of France's me- dallions . The next figure shadows out Eternity * to us , 52 DIALOGUES ON MEDALS .
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... king and lord confest , Frown not with all my goods I buy The precious cap of Liberty . I cannot forbear repeating a passage out of Per- sius , says Cynthio , that in my opinion turns the ce- remony of making a freeman very handsomely ...
... king and lord confest , Frown not with all my goods I buy The precious cap of Liberty . I cannot forbear repeating a passage out of Per- sius , says Cynthio , that in my opinion turns the ce- remony of making a freeman very handsomely ...
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... king . Mr. DRYDEN . Cui dedit invitas victa noverca manus . Cum rudis urgenti brachia victa dedi . Ov . de Fast . PROPERT . lib . 4 . We may learn from Ovid that it was sometimes the custom to place a slave with his arms bound at the ...
... king . Mr. DRYDEN . Cui dedit invitas victa noverca manus . Cum rudis urgenti brachia victa dedi . Ov . de Fast . PROPERT . lib . 4 . We may learn from Ovid that it was sometimes the custom to place a slave with his arms bound at the ...
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