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Page 79
... respect to the application of his powers , he need not blush at a comparison . It is seldom that we find the man of ... respects in a great measure unavailing . That confidence in our own re- sources , and the presence and intrepidity of ...
... respect to the application of his powers , he need not blush at a comparison . It is seldom that we find the man of ... respects in a great measure unavailing . That confidence in our own re- sources , and the presence and intrepidity of ...
Page 83
... respect , however , as well as in point of literary progress , the difference , on trial , would be found much less considerable than might at first be imagined . We never take up a book with so keen an appetite , or taste its beauties ...
... respect , however , as well as in point of literary progress , the difference , on trial , would be found much less considerable than might at first be imagined . We never take up a book with so keen an appetite , or taste its beauties ...
Page 205
... respect to those undertakings was founded in sagacious conceptions , both of immediate and re- mote policy , yet it was nevertheless barbaric . The nation for whom he planned and accomplished so many stupendous designs , neither knew ...
... respect to those undertakings was founded in sagacious conceptions , both of immediate and re- mote policy , yet it was nevertheless barbaric . The nation for whom he planned and accomplished so many stupendous designs , neither knew ...
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