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Born at Milston , Wiltshire , England , May 1 , 1672 ; died at Holland House , June 17 , 1719. A scholar of the Charterhouse , London , and at King's College , Oxford . He was the author of the tragedy “ Cato , " " Travels in Italy ...
Born at Milston , Wiltshire , England , May 1 , 1672 ; died at Holland House , June 17 , 1719. A scholar of the Charterhouse , London , and at King's College , Oxford . He was the author of the tragedy “ Cato , " " Travels in Italy ...
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Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person , but that he was born upon one day , and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind .
Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person , but that he was born upon one day , and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind .
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... died yesterday , and some six hundred years ago , I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together . PUNNING Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat ...
... died yesterday , and some six hundred years ago , I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together . PUNNING Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat ...
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Born at Eleusis , B.C. 525 ; died in Sicily , B.C. 456. Author of seventy tragedies , of which seven survive . His “ Prometheus Bound ” is the best known . At Marathon and Salamis he was a distinguished soldier .
Born at Eleusis , B.C. 525 ; died in Sicily , B.C. 456. Author of seventy tragedies , of which seven survive . His “ Prometheus Bound ” is the best known . At Marathon and Salamis he was a distinguished soldier .
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Dying at Cambridge , Massachusetts , December 14 , 1873 , his grave is shadowed by pines sent from Switzerland , and is marked by a boulder from the Aar glacier . ( By permission of Houghton Mifflin Company , Boston , the publishers . ) ...
Dying at Cambridge , Massachusetts , December 14 , 1873 , his grave is shadowed by pines sent from Switzerland , and is marked by a boulder from the Aar glacier . ( By permission of Houghton Mifflin Company , Boston , the publishers . ) ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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