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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... excellence , our country must , if there be truth and power in the principles of the Reformation , ( and that there is , no man entertains so little doubt as Mr. Grimké ) surpass every people that ever existed , " ( page 65 ) . To ...
... excellence , our country must , if there be truth and power in the principles of the Reformation , ( and that there is , no man entertains so little doubt as Mr. Grimké ) surpass every people that ever existed , " ( page 65 ) . To ...
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... excellence in this kind . But such examples make no impres- sion whatever upon the great mass of society , at least they pro- duce no useful or meliorating effects . " They shed , " to borrow a fine thought of Mr. Grimké's , " their ...
... excellence in this kind . But such examples make no impres- sion whatever upon the great mass of society , at least they pro- duce no useful or meliorating effects . " They shed , " to borrow a fine thought of Mr. Grimké's , " their ...
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... excellence . As to the doctrine of those who think that there is something magical in the very name of Eton or Westminster , who regard the learned languages as a sort of Mysteries into which an aspirant can be initiated no where else ...
... excellence . As to the doctrine of those who think that there is something magical in the very name of Eton or Westminster , who regard the learned languages as a sort of Mysteries into which an aspirant can be initiated no where else ...
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... excellence , * and it is fit that it should be so . It is by this discipline , and by this alone , that a thorough knowledge of any language , ancient or modern , or indeed of any thing else , can be acquired . Hac arte Pollux et vagus ...
... excellence , * and it is fit that it should be so . It is by this discipline , and by this alone , that a thorough knowledge of any language , ancient or modern , or indeed of any thing else , can be acquired . Hac arte Pollux et vagus ...
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... excellence ; and if ever it was called in question , it was when the taste of the moderns was fallen into a miserable state of mannerism and depravity . At least , if the merits of the latter have not been so universally and uniformly ...
... excellence ; and if ever it was called in question , it was when the taste of the moderns was fallen into a miserable state of mannerism and depravity . At least , if the merits of the latter have not been so universally and uniformly ...
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