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... produces its highest effects , it produces them only through the medium of those natural sentiments of equity and public spirit common to all mankind , which can seldom be excited but in a good cause . No man becomes eloquent but by ...
... produces its highest effects , it produces them only through the medium of those natural sentiments of equity and public spirit common to all mankind , which can seldom be excited but in a good cause . No man becomes eloquent but by ...
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... produce my messengers , or were present at a confer- ence , or were concerned with Desmond , or somebody betrayed the secret to them , or they were themselves my vicegerents in the business : which of these points will they choose to ...
... produce my messengers , or were present at a confer- ence , or were concerned with Desmond , or somebody betrayed the secret to them , or they were themselves my vicegerents in the business : which of these points will they choose to ...
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... produce all the force of argument combined with the interest which lively description never fails to awaken . You will find a very splendid specimen of this species of ora- tory , which might , I think , be described as the stat ...
... produce all the force of argument combined with the interest which lively description never fails to awaken . You will find a very splendid specimen of this species of ora- tory , which might , I think , be described as the stat ...
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... produced , and which adorn a country out of its own spoils . England has erected no churches , no hospitals , no palaces , no schools ; England has built no bridges , made no high roads , cut no navigations , dug out no reservoirs ...
... produced , and which adorn a country out of its own spoils . England has erected no churches , no hospitals , no palaces , no schools ; England has built no bridges , made no high roads , cut no navigations , dug out no reservoirs ...
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... produce penitence or amendment , are unable to pur- sue the rapidity of their flight . Their prey is lodged in England ; and the cries of India are given to seas and winds , to be blown about in every breaking up of the monsoon , over a ...
... produce penitence or amendment , are unable to pur- sue the rapidity of their flight . Their prey is lodged in England ; and the cries of India are given to seas and winds , to be blown about in every breaking up of the monsoon , over a ...
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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