Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, Late Attorney General and Acting Secretary of State of the United States: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine : Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence : Orations and Speeches : and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reviews : Prefaced by a Memoir of His Life, Embellished with a Portrait, Band 2Burges & James, 1845 |
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... body did not know that , as that sage moralist Figaro has it , pour avoir du bien le savoir faire vaut mieux que le savoir ; and just as if our supposed great men had troubled * Areopagitica - So Hor . Epist . i . 2. says of Homer ...
... body did not know that , as that sage moralist Figaro has it , pour avoir du bien le savoir faire vaut mieux que le savoir ; and just as if our supposed great men had troubled * Areopagitica - So Hor . Epist . i . 2. says of Homer ...
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... body of Grecian plilosophy , natural , political , moral , and social , and we must acknowledge that it exerted scarcely any salutary influence on the mass of the community - that their education was no part of its theory or practice ...
... body of Grecian plilosophy , natural , political , moral , and social , and we must acknowledge that it exerted scarcely any salutary influence on the mass of the community - that their education was no part of its theory or practice ...
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... body of poetry in the world , about the unrivalled sublimity of which , all the modern , i . e . Romantic critics are agreed , without a dissenting voice , it is the sacred ing why or wherefore , is actually prose . " All a ...
... body of poetry in the world , about the unrivalled sublimity of which , all the modern , i . e . Romantic critics are agreed , without a dissenting voice , it is the sacred ing why or wherefore , is actually prose . " All a ...
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... body perceives that science has been enlarged , and that the com- • Tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri . - Hor . Ars Poetica , 95 . forts and accommodations of society have been wonderfully in- creased CLASSICAL LEARNING . 35.
... body perceives that science has been enlarged , and that the com- • Tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri . - Hor . Ars Poetica , 95 . forts and accommodations of society have been wonderfully in- creased CLASSICAL LEARNING . 35.
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... body - and even that not unfre- quently , so altered in its very lineaments , that its author would scarcely recognize it - while all " the vital grace is wanting , the native sweetness is gone , the color of primeval beauty is faded ...
... body - and even that not unfre- quently , so altered in its very lineaments , that its author would scarcely recognize it - while all " the vital grace is wanting , the native sweetness is gone , the color of primeval beauty is faded ...
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