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 615
... hath been the cause of all our pre- fent difficulties . For were we thus dif- treffed , in fpite of every vigorous effort which the honour of our ftate demanded , there were then no hope of a recovery . In the next place , reflect ( you ...
... hath been the cause of all our pre- fent difficulties . For were we thus dif- treffed , in fpite of every vigorous effort which the honour of our ftate demanded , there were then no hope of a recovery . In the next place , reflect ( you ...
Pàgina 616
... hath ever been more care- ful of the ftate than we ourselves , now re- peat her favours ( and may the thus crown them ! ) be affured of this , that by being on the spot , ready to take advantage of the confufion , you will every where ...
... hath ever been more care- ful of the ftate than we ourselves , now re- peat her favours ( and may the thus crown them ! ) be affured of this , that by being on the spot , ready to take advantage of the confufion , you will every where ...
Pàgina 617
... hath a naval power , we must be provided with light veffels , that our troops may have a fecure convoy . not for fervice . My countrymen ! should not all thefe generals have been chofen from your own body ; all these several officers ...
... hath a naval power , we must be provided with light veffels , that our troops may have a fecure convoy . not for fervice . My countrymen ! should not all thefe generals have been chofen from your own body ; all these several officers ...
Pàgina 618
... hath he arrived at such a pitch of infolence , as to fend a letter to the Euboeans , con- ceived in such terms as these : The LETTER is read . What hath now been read , is for the most part true , Athenians ! too true ! but perhaps not ...
... hath he arrived at such a pitch of infolence , as to fend a letter to the Euboeans , con- ceived in such terms as these : The LETTER is read . What hath now been read , is for the most part true , Athenians ! too true ! but perhaps not ...
Pàgina 619
... hath neither kill nor fpirit . Even fo , if you hear that Philip is in the Cherfonefus , you refolve to fend forces thither ; if in Ther- mopyle , thither ; if in any other place , you hurry up and down , you follow his Itandard . But ...
... hath neither kill nor fpirit . Even fo , if you hear that Philip is in the Cherfonefus , you refolve to fend forces thither ; if in Ther- mopyle , thither ; if in any other place , you hurry up and down , you follow his Itandard . But ...
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