Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: With a Memoir of the Author's Life. To which are Added, Copious Questions; and an Analysis of Each Lecture |
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Page 328 - me? Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Thus doth he expostulate severely with them, after the most graceful manner of the eastern poetry. The issue of which is a plain and full resolution of the case, in those few words of the text: Offer unto
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