The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... friends and timid advisers , without treasury , without allies and yet at once and without hesitation asserting his military genius , defeating his bravest enemies , cowing his disloyal subjects , crushing sedition , and then starting ...
... friends and timid advisers , without treasury , without allies and yet at once and without hesitation asserting his military genius , defeating his bravest enemies , cowing his disloyal subjects , crushing sedition , and then starting ...
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... friends of poets , and respectable men ; and there were the kings of Sparta . But the former were always regarded as arch - heretics were regarded by the Church in the Middle Ages , as men whose virtues were of no account and whose ...
... friends of poets , and respectable men ; and there were the kings of Sparta . But the former were always regarded as arch - heretics were regarded by the Church in the Middle Ages , as men whose virtues were of no account and whose ...
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... friend seven inhabited towns as a gift , while they only retained the religious preeminence of their pedigree , the kings of Mace- donia had preserved all their ancient privileges . Grote thinks them the best representatives of that ...
... friend seven inhabited towns as a gift , while they only retained the religious preeminence of their pedigree , the kings of Mace- donia had preserved all their ancient privileges . Grote thinks them the best representatives of that ...
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... friends ! ye torrents , whose murmur he recognizes like the sound of the voices of home ! ye villages , scattered and glistening on the declivity , like flocks of grazing sheep ! farewell ! How mournful is the step of him who , brought ...
... friends ! ye torrents , whose murmur he recognizes like the sound of the voices of home ! ye villages , scattered and glistening on the declivity , like flocks of grazing sheep ! farewell ! How mournful is the step of him who , brought ...
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... friendship is unfeign'd , And Faustus ' custom is not to deny The just requests of those that wish him well , You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece , No otherways for pomp and majesty Than when Sir Paris cross'd the seas with ...
... friendship is unfeign'd , And Faustus ' custom is not to deny The just requests of those that wish him well , You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece , No otherways for pomp and majesty Than when Sir Paris cross'd the seas with ...
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