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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... reason , careful choice among the classics and limited quotations from the best were rendered necessary by the scarcity of books . While manuscripts were rare , and when the labor of transcrib- ing them was irksome and expensive , it ...
... reason , careful choice among the classics and limited quotations from the best were rendered necessary by the scarcity of books . While manuscripts were rare , and when the labor of transcrib- ing them was irksome and expensive , it ...
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... reason but that they may be killed , and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head . Γλαυκόν TE , Μέδοντά τε , Θερσίλοχόν τε . HOм . IL . p . 216 . Glaucumque , Medontaque , Thersilochumque . Glaucus , and Medon , and ...
... reason but that they may be killed , and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head . Γλαυκόν TE , Μέδοντά τε , Θερσίλοχόν τε . HOм . IL . p . 216 . Glaucumque , Medontaque , Thersilochumque . Glaucus , and Medon , and ...
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... reason , reflec- tion , and good sense , they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest genius that is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art . Imitation is natural to us , and when it does not raise the WESTMINSTER ABBEY ...
... reason , reflec- tion , and good sense , they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest genius that is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art . Imitation is natural to us , and when it does not raise the WESTMINSTER ABBEY ...
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... reason , though they excel later writers in greatness of genius , they fall short of them in accuracy and correctness . The moderns cannot reach their beauties , but can avoid their imper- fections . When the world was furnished with ...
... reason , though they excel later writers in greatness of genius , they fall short of them in accuracy and correctness . The moderns cannot reach their beauties , but can avoid their imper- fections . When the world was furnished with ...
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... reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity , which is what we express by the word good breeding . For if we examine thor- oughly the idea of what we call so , we shall find it to be nothing else but an ...
... reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity , which is what we express by the word good breeding . For if we examine thor- oughly the idea of what we call so , we shall find it to be nothing else but an ...
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