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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... give us , as it was once the fashion for every philosopher to do , his scheme of an imaginary commonwealth , he would not only , after the example of Plato , expel from his ideal territory , the whole inspired tribe en masse , ( except ...
... give us , as it was once the fashion for every philosopher to do , his scheme of an imaginary commonwealth , he would not only , after the example of Plato , expel from his ideal territory , the whole inspired tribe en masse , ( except ...
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... give up the controversy , and with it , all hope of ever reclaiming him from the error of his ways . We really cannot , with a clear conscience , undertake to promise , that Greek and Latin will make better artisans and manufacturers ...
... give up the controversy , and with it , all hope of ever reclaiming him from the error of his ways . We really cannot , with a clear conscience , undertake to promise , that Greek and Latin will make better artisans and manufacturers ...
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... give the least countenance to this notion of a romantic , or spiritual , or mystical poetry , essentially distinct from the classical ( not in its subjects or spirit , for that is cer- tainly true , but ) in its rules and proportions ...
... give the least countenance to this notion of a romantic , or spiritual , or mystical poetry , essentially distinct from the classical ( not in its subjects or spirit , for that is cer- tainly true , but ) in its rules and proportions ...
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... give any idea to the English reader of the bitter and contemptu- ous emphasis , and the powerful effect with which Demosthenes pronounces his Máxedwv avnp , or of the force of that eloquent hor- ror and astonishment with which Cicero ...
... give any idea to the English reader of the bitter and contemptu- ous emphasis , and the powerful effect with which Demosthenes pronounces his Máxedwv avnp , or of the force of that eloquent hor- ror and astonishment with which Cicero ...
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... give it its last finishing - to impart to it , -the full resounding line , The long majestic march and energy divine : * but whoever heard Butler's Analogy or Kames ' Elements com- mended for style , and who could not master their sense ...
... give it its last finishing - to impart to it , -the full resounding line , The long majestic march and energy divine : * but whoever heard Butler's Analogy or Kames ' Elements com- mended for style , and who could not master their sense ...
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