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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... sense for which he is remarkable , though they seem to be pushed too far . Magis scias si quem jam robustum instituere literis cæperis , non sine causâ dici , Taidoμatsis eos qui in suâ quidque arte optime faciant . Et patientior est ...
... sense for which he is remarkable , though they seem to be pushed too far . Magis scias si quem jam robustum instituere literis cæperis , non sine causâ dici , Taidoμatsis eos qui in suâ quidque arte optime faciant . Et patientior est ...
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... , ( who asserted the equality of those two poets with any of the great names of antiquity ) as so many outrages upon common sense , and disguised sar- casms upon themselves . lust , & c . " However , from the CLASSICAL LEARNING . 19.
... , ( who asserted the equality of those two poets with any of the great names of antiquity ) as so many outrages upon common sense , and disguised sar- casms upon themselves . lust , & c . " However , from the CLASSICAL LEARNING . 19.
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... sense shall assign , to poetry and the fine arts , a rank far below that which they have held , from a singular concurrence of circumstances , in the judgment of the world . When this consummation shall have been fulfilled [ aye , but ...
... sense shall assign , to poetry and the fine arts , a rank far below that which they have held , from a singular concurrence of circumstances , in the judgment of the world . When this consummation shall have been fulfilled [ aye , but ...
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... sense " shall as- sign to the Psalms or the Book of Job , in the library of a cultiva- ted mind , a lower place than to Robertson and Hume ? Milton pro- nounces " our sage and serious poet , Spenser , " a better teacher than Scotus and ...
... sense " shall as- sign to the Psalms or the Book of Job , in the library of a cultiva- ted mind , a lower place than to Robertson and Hume ? Milton pro- nounces " our sage and serious poet , Spenser , " a better teacher than Scotus and ...
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... sense , ( for in that , nothing could excel anti- quity ) but the general conclusions or results of inquiry and rea- soning about such subjects as are most universally interesting to mankind - upon the speculations of great and ruling ...
... sense , ( for in that , nothing could excel anti- quity ) but the general conclusions or results of inquiry and rea- soning about such subjects as are most universally interesting to mankind - upon the speculations of great and ruling ...
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