The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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... equal facility , be employed to give a gloss to false opinions , and to acts of treachery and injustice , as to enforce truth , or to support virtue . According to this view of the subject , there can be little doubt but that elo ...
... equal facility , be employed to give a gloss to false opinions , and to acts of treachery and injustice , as to enforce truth , or to support virtue . According to this view of the subject , there can be little doubt but that elo ...
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... the British orators have surpassed the Greek and Roman ; among us another species of eloquence has been cultivated with equal success . It belongs to a class which may be called descriptive oratory , but it ELOQUENCE . 9.
... the British orators have surpassed the Greek and Roman ; among us another species of eloquence has been cultivated with equal success . It belongs to a class which may be called descriptive oratory , but it ELOQUENCE . 9.
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... equal riches to them . On the contrary , the high flood - tide of private emolument was generally in the lowest ebb of their affairs . They began also to fear , that the fortune of war might take away what the fortune of war had given ...
... equal riches to them . On the contrary , the high flood - tide of private emolument was generally in the lowest ebb of their affairs . They began also to fear , that the fortune of war might take away what the fortune of war had given ...
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... equal , the ordi- nary titles of respect and courtesy . From that time forward a continued plot was carried on within the divan , black and white , of the nabob of Arcot , for the destruction of Hyder Ali . As to the outward members of ...
... equal , the ordi- nary titles of respect and courtesy . From that time forward a continued plot was carried on within the divan , black and white , of the nabob of Arcot , for the destruction of Hyder Ali . As to the outward members of ...
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... equal number of lines of Lord Byron would furnish finer extracts , in what may be termed his lordship's own peculiar style , than the " Duke OF BYRON " of old Chapman . The story consists of two parts , or distinct plays , THE ...
... equal number of lines of Lord Byron would furnish finer extracts , in what may be termed his lordship's own peculiar style , than the " Duke OF BYRON " of old Chapman . The story consists of two parts , or distinct plays , THE ...
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ancient appear Bachelor beauty Benedict breath caboceer called cataract Catiline CHAP character church Demonax Devil Don Quixote Dr Johnson dreadful Duke of Burgundy earth EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE effect English equal eyes fall FAUST feel fire friends genius Gil Blas give gold Greek hand hath hear heard heart heaven holy honour human Hyder Ali imagination Ioannina Jaffa king less live look Lord magnificent manner MARGARET ment Mephistopheles merits mind morning nature never night o'er object observed Odoacer opinion ornaments palaces passages peculiar perhaps persons pleasure poet poetical poetry possess principles racter replied the Nymph respect Roman round scarcely scene sentiments Shirley Sibylline books side song Sotheby's soul spirit steam stood style sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth Warburton whole