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... Cicero against Verres , 2. Cicero for Milo , SECTION IV . SPEECHES ON VAROUS SUBJECTS . 1. Romulus to the people of Rome , after building the city , 27+ 279 283 286 Hooke , 293 2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus , 3. Scipio's reply ...
... Cicero against Verres , 2. Cicero for Milo , SECTION IV . SPEECHES ON VAROUS SUBJECTS . 1. Romulus to the people of Rome , after building the city , 27+ 279 283 286 Hooke , 293 2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus , 3. Scipio's reply ...
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... Cicero compares such speakers to cripples , who get on horseback because they cannot walk ; they bellow , because they cannot speak . RULE III . Acquire a compass and variety in the Height of your voice . THE monotony so much complained ...
... Cicero compares such speakers to cripples , who get on horseback because they cannot walk ; they bellow , because they cannot speak . RULE III . Acquire a compass and variety in the Height of your voice . THE monotony so much complained ...
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... Cicero , formed his taste , enlarged his understanding , and gave him the noblest ideas of man and of government . The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind ; and Alexander , who was tall , active and robust , surpassed ...
... Cicero , formed his taste , enlarged his understanding , and gave him the noblest ideas of man and of government . The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind ; and Alexander , who was tall , active and robust , surpassed ...
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... Cicero . Nor was he a master only of the politer arts , but conversant also with the most abstruse and critical parts of Learning ; and , among other works which he published , addressed two books to Cicero , on the analogy of lan ...
... Cicero . Nor was he a master only of the politer arts , but conversant also with the most abstruse and critical parts of Learning ; and , among other works which he published , addressed two books to Cicero , on the analogy of lan ...
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... Cicero says , the greatest of goddesses ; and had frequently in his mouth a verse of Euripides , which expressed the image of his soul . That if right and justice were ever to be violated , they were to be violated for the sake of ...
... Cicero says , the greatest of goddesses ; and had frequently in his mouth a verse of Euripides , which expressed the image of his soul . That if right and justice were ever to be violated , they were to be violated for the sake of ...
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