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Page xii
... greater beauty than his treatises on Divorce . While ostensibly en- gaged in discussing the question generally , and upon public grounds , he was , it is well known , pleading his own cause . He had married a woman , not wanting ...
... greater beauty than his treatises on Divorce . While ostensibly en- gaged in discussing the question generally , and upon public grounds , he was , it is well known , pleading his own cause . He had married a woman , not wanting ...
Page xxv
... greater proba- bility , the contemporaries of Demosthenes or Cicero might have concluded that the speeches of those great orators would sink with the succeeding age into oblivion ; yet we find , after the lapse , in one case , of more ...
... greater proba- bility , the contemporaries of Demosthenes or Cicero might have concluded that the speeches of those great orators would sink with the succeeding age into oblivion ; yet we find , after the lapse , in one case , of more ...
Page xxix
... greater and better , the reader , I trust , will pardon me the warmth I cannot but feel when dishonour and obloquy are attempted to be thrown , by what hand soever , upon his most venerable name . At first sight , Johnson's attack ...
... greater and better , the reader , I trust , will pardon me the warmth I cannot but feel when dishonour and obloquy are attempted to be thrown , by what hand soever , upon his most venerable name . At first sight , Johnson's attack ...
Page xxx
... Cromwell ! Milton regarded " Old Noll " as a greater and better Sylla , to whom , in the motto to his work against the restoration of kingship , he compares him , and evidently hoped to the last , what XXX EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... Cromwell ! Milton regarded " Old Noll " as a greater and better Sylla , to whom , in the motto to his work against the restoration of kingship , he compares him , and evidently hoped to the last , what XXX EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Page xxxvi
... greater service . He was then made Latin Secretary , with two hundred pounds a year . " Being a dic- tionary maker , Dr. Johnson may be thought to have understood the meaning of common English words , and must therefore have known that ...
... greater service . He was then made Latin Secretary , with two hundred pounds a year . " Being a dic- tionary maker , Dr. Johnson may be thought to have understood the meaning of common English words , and must therefore have known that ...
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