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... seem equally balanced , as eloquence may as frequently be an auxiliary to truth as to error , yet truth and justice can much better support the absence of extrinsic ornament than falsehood and injustice , which never fail , when shewn ...
... seem equally balanced , as eloquence may as frequently be an auxiliary to truth as to error , yet truth and justice can much better support the absence of extrinsic ornament than falsehood and injustice , which never fail , when shewn ...
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... seems to have been in it the greatest master , as he was of all modern orators , nay , I will assert of all orators whatsoever , the most magnificent in phraseology . His diction wants the round and rolling cadence of Cicero's , and in ...
... seems to have been in it the greatest master , as he was of all modern orators , nay , I will assert of all orators whatsoever , the most magnificent in phraseology . His diction wants the round and rolling cadence of Cicero's , and in ...
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... seem to have pro- voked it . This " The army , already weakened by its loss at the sieges of El Arish and of Jaffa , was still more so by diseases , whose ravages became from day to day more alarming . It had great difficulties in ...
... seem to have pro- voked it . This " The army , already weakened by its loss at the sieges of El Arish and of Jaffa , was still more so by diseases , whose ravages became from day to day more alarming . It had great difficulties in ...
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... seem that the barbaric pearl and gold there are wonderfully like the pomps and pageantries among ourselves . Turn up the volume at page 34 , and you will find the description to which I allude . ” AFRICAN MANNERS . " An area of nearly a ...
... seem that the barbaric pearl and gold there are wonderfully like the pomps and pageantries among ourselves . Turn up the volume at page 34 , and you will find the description to which I allude . ” AFRICAN MANNERS . " An area of nearly a ...
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... seem'd a narrow neck of land Had broke between two mighty seas , and either Flow'd into other ; for so did the slaughter ; And whirl'd about , as when two violent tides Meet and not yield . The furies stood on hills , Circling the place ...
... seem'd a narrow neck of land Had broke between two mighty seas , and either Flow'd into other ; for so did the slaughter ; And whirl'd about , as when two violent tides Meet and not yield . The furies stood on hills , Circling the place ...
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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