Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to 'Elegant Extracts in Poetry'.J. Johnson, 1801 |
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Pàgina 619
... defire . He may promife , and harangue , and accufe this or that perfon : but to fuch proceedings we owe the ruin of our affairs . For , when a general who commanded a wretched col- lection of unpaid foreigners , hath been de- feated ...
... defire . He may promife , and harangue , and accufe this or that perfon : but to fuch proceedings we owe the ruin of our affairs . For , when a general who commanded a wretched col- lection of unpaid foreigners , hath been de- feated ...
Pàgina 627
... defire ? What fhall I " propofe ? How can I oblige you ? " The intereft of our country hath been facrificed to momentary pleafure , and popular fa- vour . Thus have we been diftrefied ; thus have these men rifen to greatnefs , and you ...
... defire ? What fhall I " propofe ? How can I oblige you ? " The intereft of our country hath been facrificed to momentary pleafure , and popular fa- vour . Thus have we been diftrefied ; thus have these men rifen to greatnefs , and you ...
Pàgina 644
... defire , do they hope to fpring up confuls , dictators , or kings , from the afhes of a city , and blood of her citizens , which with fo much treachery and facrilege they have confpired to fpill ? They are igno- rant of the tendency of ...
... defire , do they hope to fpring up confuls , dictators , or kings , from the afhes of a city , and blood of her citizens , which with fo much treachery and facrilege they have confpired to fpill ? They are igno- rant of the tendency of ...
Pàgina 652
... defire no other reward of my zeal , no other mark of honour , no other monument of praife , but the perpetual remembrance of this day . It is in your breafts alone , that I would have all my triumphs , all my titles of honour , all the ...
... defire no other reward of my zeal , no other mark of honour , no other monument of praife , but the perpetual remembrance of this day . It is in your breafts alone , that I would have all my triumphs , all my titles of honour , all the ...
Pàgina 655
... defire it . Yet decree fo , if you think fit . I will endeavour , and I hope I shall be able to find thofe , who will not think it unfuit able to their dignity , to comply with what- ever you fhail judge neceflary for the com- mon ...
... defire it . Yet decree fo , if you think fit . I will endeavour , and I hope I shall be able to find thofe , who will not think it unfuit able to their dignity , to comply with what- ever you fhail judge neceflary for the com- mon ...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... Vicesimus Knox Visualització completa - 1797 |
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ... Vicesimus Knox Visualització completa - 1796 |
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volum 2 Vicesimus Knox Visualització de fragments - 1801 |
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