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There are others so excessively modest , that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew , and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who had ...
There are others so excessively modest , that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew , and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who had ...
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I remember a country schoolmaster of my acquaintance told me once , that he had been in company with a gentleman whom he looked upon to be the greatest paragrammatist among the moderns . Upon inquiry , I found my learned friend had ...
I remember a country schoolmaster of my acquaintance told me once , that he had been in company with a gentleman whom he looked upon to be the greatest paragrammatist among the moderns . Upon inquiry , I found my learned friend had ...
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But when this distinction was once settled , it was very natural for all men of sense to agree in it . As for the revival of this false wit , it happened about the time of the revival of letters ; but as soon as it was once detected ...
But when this distinction was once settled , it was very natural for all men of sense to agree in it . As for the revival of this false wit , it happened about the time of the revival of letters ; but as soon as it was once detected ...
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The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination , and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him . He lifted me from the ground , and taking ...
The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination , and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him . He lifted me from the ground , and taking ...
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Then they sent Mercury with a private message to Jupiter , beseeching him that he would take pity on them once more ; but Jupiter replied , that they were only suffering the punishment due to their folly , and that another time they ...
Then they sent Mercury with a private message to Jupiter , beseeching him that he would take pity on them once more ; but Jupiter replied , that they were only suffering the punishment due to their folly , and that another time they ...
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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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