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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... supposed inspirations of genius , but to mere dint of toil and perseverance.t πῶν πόνων , Πωλοῦσιν ἡμῖν πάντα τ ' ἀγαθὰ Θεοί . Epicharmus apud Xenophon : Memorab . 1. ii . c . 1 + The text is paraphrase of a favorite maxim from ...
... supposed inspirations of genius , but to mere dint of toil and perseverance.t πῶν πόνων , Πωλοῦσιν ἡμῖν πάντα τ ' ἀγαθὰ Θεοί . Epicharmus apud Xenophon : Memorab . 1. ii . c . 1 + The text is paraphrase of a favorite maxim from ...
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... supposed to be the best of all possible judges in such a case . For what W. Schlegel , whom Mr. Grimké has , to our infinite surprise , attempted to press into the service of his anti - classical " root and branch " reformation , says ...
... supposed to be the best of all possible judges in such a case . For what W. Schlegel , whom Mr. Grimké has , to our infinite surprise , attempted to press into the service of his anti - classical " root and branch " reformation , says ...
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... supposed unprofitableness of it , by reason of the vast supe- riority of modern genius in every department of philosophy and letters . He puts the question , and predicts with a precision quite characteristic , that it will be ...
... supposed unprofitableness of it , by reason of the vast supe- riority of modern genius in every department of philosophy and letters . He puts the question , and predicts with a precision quite characteristic , that it will be ...
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... supposed great men had troubled * Areopagitica - So Hor . Epist . i . 2. says of Homer , -quid sit pulchrum , quid turpe , quid utile , quid non Pleniùs ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit . + See Bishop Lowth's first and eighteenth ...
... supposed great men had troubled * Areopagitica - So Hor . Epist . i . 2. says of Homer , -quid sit pulchrum , quid turpe , quid utile , quid non Pleniùs ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit . + See Bishop Lowth's first and eighteenth ...
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... supposed copy . The antique grandeur and simplicity of the Æneid , and the perfect regularity of its proportions are not more strikingly contrasted with the wildness and eccentricities of his fable , than its whole spirit and character ...
... supposed copy . The antique grandeur and simplicity of the Æneid , and the perfect regularity of its proportions are not more strikingly contrasted with the wildness and eccentricities of his fable , than its whole spirit and character ...
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