Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 159
... equal- men think that they have an equal led the oldest and the ablest actors . natural right to riches , and equal abi- His eloquence was of every kind , and lities to make the proper use of them ; he excelled in the argumentative as ...
... equal- men think that they have an equal led the oldest and the ablest actors . natural right to riches , and equal abi- His eloquence was of every kind , and lities to make the proper use of them ; he excelled in the argumentative as ...
Page 285
... equal use are necessarily who is doing the same elsewhere . neglected ; as a small garrison must Whatever is incompatible with the leave one part of an extensive for- highest dignity of our nature , should tress naked , when an alarm ...
... equal use are necessarily who is doing the same elsewhere . neglected ; as a small garrison must Whatever is incompatible with the leave one part of an extensive for- highest dignity of our nature , should tress naked , when an alarm ...
Page 319
... equal felicity , for May and San- ed in English was a translation . dys were poets , and Holiday only a Caxton was both the translator and scholar and a critic . 66 printer of the Destruccion of Troye , Feltham appears to consider it as ...
... equal felicity , for May and San- ed in English was a translation . dys were poets , and Holiday only a Caxton was both the translator and scholar and a critic . 66 printer of the Destruccion of Troye , Feltham appears to consider it as ...
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On the Constitution of England Montesquieu | 3 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
The Feudal System | 30 |
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