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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... friend of the Troubadour . This simple , but pleasing and peculiar poetry , accordingly flourished under their favour and cultivation . Under the influence of the commercial spirit , on the contrary , it died away -- men at arms yielded ...
... friend of the Troubadour . This simple , but pleasing and peculiar poetry , accordingly flourished under their favour and cultivation . Under the influence of the commercial spirit , on the contrary , it died away -- men at arms yielded ...
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... friends- if some god do not prevent it by coming down in a machine , and taking the thanks of it to himself . By the plot , you may guess much of the character of the persons - an old father who would willingly , before he dies , see ...
... friends- if some god do not prevent it by coming down in a machine , and taking the thanks of it to himself . By the plot , you may guess much of the character of the persons - an old father who would willingly , before he dies , see ...
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... friend , and survived the liberties of Rome twenty years . His beautiful villas , however , had been seized by Mark Antony , and it is conjectured , that we owe the composition of his three books , De Re Rustica , to the destruc- tion ...
... friend , and survived the liberties of Rome twenty years . His beautiful villas , however , had been seized by Mark Antony , and it is conjectured , that we owe the composition of his three books , De Re Rustica , to the destruc- tion ...
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... friend Memmius , he declares the motive that induced him to undertake it . This was to relieve the minds of men from the bondage of superstition , whose terrors are not to be dispelled by " the light of the sun or the glittering shafts ...
... friend Memmius , he declares the motive that induced him to undertake it . This was to relieve the minds of men from the bondage of superstition , whose terrors are not to be dispelled by " the light of the sun or the glittering shafts ...
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... friends to elevate their views to loftier objects than were commonly aimed at by men engaged in fo- rensic pursuits . " The science of jurisprudence ought to be drawn , " says he , " not from the edict of the Prætor , as is usual ...
... friends to elevate their views to loftier objects than were commonly aimed at by men engaged in fo- rensic pursuits . " The science of jurisprudence ought to be drawn , " says he , " not from the edict of the Prætor , as is usual ...
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