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... characters : otherwise we may pay the same deference to the misrepresentations of Dion , and the prodigies of Plutarch , as to the authenticity of Sallust , Tully , and Tacitus . What What is to be found here , is not intended vi PREFACE .
... characters : otherwise we may pay the same deference to the misrepresentations of Dion , and the prodigies of Plutarch , as to the authenticity of Sallust , Tully , and Tacitus . What What is to be found here , is not intended vi PREFACE .
Page vii
... characters , who claimed their attention in their early studies ; the reverence for whom seems to increase , like the magnitude of mountains , in proportion to our distance from them . A great object approached too nearly can be but par ...
... characters , who claimed their attention in their early studies ; the reverence for whom seems to increase , like the magnitude of mountains , in proportion to our distance from them . A great object approached too nearly can be but par ...
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... character of ' Marat , with whom we have to treat , that I object ; " it is not to the horrour of those crimes which have " stained their legislators , crimes in every stage rising above each other in point of enormity ; but " I object ...
... character of ' Marat , with whom we have to treat , that I object ; " it is not to the horrour of those crimes which have " stained their legislators , crimes in every stage rising above each other in point of enormity ; but " I object ...
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... judgment which the publick may be pleased to form upon it . I will only venture to affirm , that it was no very easy matter to give an air of dis- crimination crimination to so many different characters of men , who PREFACE . XV.
... judgment which the publick may be pleased to form upon it . I will only venture to affirm , that it was no very easy matter to give an air of dis- crimination crimination to so many different characters of men , who PREFACE . XV.
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With Historical Remarks and Illustrations Robert Jephson. crimination to so many different characters of men , who , being of the same country , living under the same laws and customs , and mostly educated in the same manner , must have ...
With Historical Remarks and Illustrations Robert Jephson. crimination to so many different characters of men , who , being of the same country , living under the same laws and customs , and mostly educated in the same manner , must have ...
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