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 621
... human , may fee that he hath ex- haufted all thofe artifices to which he owes his prefent elevation ; and that his affairs are now ready to decline . For I myself ( Athenians ! ) fhould think Philip really to be dreaded and admired , if ...
... human , may fee that he hath ex- haufted all thofe artifices to which he owes his prefent elevation ; and that his affairs are now ready to decline . For I myself ( Athenians ! ) fhould think Philip really to be dreaded and admired , if ...
Pàgina 623
... human affairs : but then , were I to chufe , I should prefer the fortune of Athens ( if you yourselves will affert your own caufe , with the leaft degree of vigour ) to this man's fortune . For we have many better reasons to de- pend ...
... human affairs : but then , were I to chufe , I should prefer the fortune of Athens ( if you yourselves will affert your own caufe , with the leaft degree of vigour ) to this man's fortune . For we have many better reasons to de- pend ...
Pàgina 645
... human aid to fail , will not the immortal gods enable fuch illuftrious virtue to triumph over fuch complicated vice ? Such , Romans , being our prefent fitu- ation , do you , as I have before advised , watch and keep guard in your ...
... human aid to fail , will not the immortal gods enable fuch illuftrious virtue to triumph over fuch complicated vice ? Such , Romans , being our prefent fitu- ation , do you , as I have before advised , watch and keep guard in your ...
Pàgina 650
... human counfel , but becaufe the gods have fo re- markably interpofed in them , as to shew themselves almoft vifibly . For not to mention the nightly streams of light from the western sky , the blazing of the hea- vens , the thunders ...
... human counfel , but becaufe the gods have fo re- markably interpofed in them , as to shew themselves almoft vifibly . For not to mention the nightly streams of light from the western sky , the blazing of the hea- vens , the thunders ...
Pàgina 657
... human bleffings , have rouzed to the defence of their country ? There is not a flave in any tolerable condition of life , who does not look with horror on this daring attempt of profligate citizens , who is not anxious . for the ...
... human bleffings , have rouzed to the defence of their country ? There is not a flave in any tolerable condition of life , who does not look with horror on this daring attempt of profligate citizens , who is not anxious . for the ...
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