Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 627
... whose judgments are well directed , and whose souls are great , could not support the infamy which must attend them , if obliged to desert any of the operations of a war , from the want of money . They could not , after snatching up ...
... whose judgments are well directed , and whose souls are great , could not support the infamy which must attend them , if obliged to desert any of the operations of a war , from the want of money . They could not , after snatching up ...
Page 637
... whose authority you affect to prize , while you make no account of their lives ; but of these brave and worthy Roman knights , and other illustrious citizens , who guard the avenues of the senate ; whose numbers you might have seen , whose ...
... whose authority you affect to prize , while you make no account of their lives ; but of these brave and worthy Roman knights , and other illustrious citizens , who guard the avenues of the senate ; whose numbers you might have seen , whose ...
Page 658
... whose number you see to be very great : but I look upon them as a base , ab- ject , impotent , contemptible faction . But if , through the madness of any , it shall rise again , so as to prevail against the se- nate and the republic ...
... whose number you see to be very great : but I look upon them as a base , ab- ject , impotent , contemptible faction . But if , through the madness of any , it shall rise again , so as to prevail against the se- nate and the republic ...
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