Analectic Magazine: Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, Volume 8James Maxwell, 1816 |
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... truth without ever being varied . Be this as it may , we remember many years ago , to have seen in the small bookstores of the cities , stuck up at the windows , a little book called An Account of the Life of Paul Jones , LIFE OF JOHN ...
... truth without ever being varied . Be this as it may , we remember many years ago , to have seen in the small bookstores of the cities , stuck up at the windows , a little book called An Account of the Life of Paul Jones , LIFE OF JOHN ...
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... truth . It was then we be- came used to hear of him as a renegado , a freebooter , brave indeed , to desperation , but paying little regard to the rules of civilized warfare , and still less to the rights and feelings of humanity . In ...
... truth . It was then we be- came used to hear of him as a renegado , a freebooter , brave indeed , to desperation , but paying little regard to the rules of civilized warfare , and still less to the rights and feelings of humanity . In ...
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... truth is sacrificed - the distinction between the authorized , and unau- thorized modes of hostility are lost sight of all that are oppo- sed to us are bad , all that are friendly are good - the one is represented as wanting every ...
... truth is sacrificed - the distinction between the authorized , and unau- thorized modes of hostility are lost sight of all that are oppo- sed to us are bad , all that are friendly are good - the one is represented as wanting every ...
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... truth , that of undertakings that were considered rash , if not desperate , a greater propor- tion have succeeded , than of those which were supposed to require neither caution or valour . On the one side the idea of security causes a ...
... truth , that of undertakings that were considered rash , if not desperate , a greater propor- tion have succeeded , than of those which were supposed to require neither caution or valour . On the one side the idea of security causes a ...
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... truth is too apt to associate courage and ferocity together , and it is seldom we hear of a daring or des- perate exploit , but we figure to our minds , a sort of rugged barbarian , with the form of a Hercules , the countenance of a ...
... truth is too apt to associate courage and ferocity together , and it is seldom we hear of a daring or des- perate exploit , but we figure to our minds , a sort of rugged barbarian , with the form of a Hercules , the countenance of a ...
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