The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their pub- lic monuments and inscriptions , they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in exe- cution . Sir Cloudesley ...
... idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their pub- lic monuments and inscriptions , they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in exe- cution . Sir Cloudesley ...
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... idea of what we call so , we shall find it to be nothing else but an imitation and mimicry of good nature , or , in other terms , affability , complaisance , and easiness of temper reduced into an art . These exterior shows and ...
... idea of what we call so , we shall find it to be nothing else but an imitation and mimicry of good nature , or , in other terms , affability , complaisance , and easiness of temper reduced into an art . These exterior shows and ...
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... ideas , and a general benevolence to mankind . In that celebrated passage of Sallust , where Cæsar and Cato are placed in such beautiful but opposite lights , Cæsar's char- acter is chiefly made up of good nature , as it showed itself ...
... ideas , and a general benevolence to mankind . In that celebrated passage of Sallust , where Cæsar and Cato are placed in such beautiful but opposite lights , Cæsar's char- acter is chiefly made up of good nature , as it showed itself ...
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... idea of the extent of Italy . Acquaintance with Phoenician merchants also had enlarged his knowledge of the world ; Sardinia , Corsica , and Spain were known to him , and he was familiar with the Black and Red Seas ; though an indenta ...
... idea of the extent of Italy . Acquaintance with Phoenician merchants also had enlarged his knowledge of the world ; Sardinia , Corsica , and Spain were known to him , and he was familiar with the Black and Red Seas ; though an indenta ...
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... idea of ancient mountain upheavals from existing active volcanoes , although the causes which produced them were , in a somewhat modified sense , the same . Our present volcanic mountains are only chimneys , or narrow tunnels , as it ...
... idea of ancient mountain upheavals from existing active volcanoes , although the causes which produced them were , in a somewhat modified sense , the same . Our present volcanic mountains are only chimneys , or narrow tunnels , as it ...
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