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 659
... lords , I have any abilities , and 1 am fenfible they are but fmall ; if , by speaking often , I have acquired any merit as a fpeaker ; if I have derived any know- ledge from the ftudy of the liberal arts , which have ever been my ...
... lords , I have any abilities , and 1 am fenfible they are but fmall ; if , by speaking often , I have acquired any merit as a fpeaker ; if I have derived any know- ledge from the ftudy of the liberal arts , which have ever been my ...
Pàgina 662
... lords , ( for I will prefume on your goodness , as you are pleafed to fa- vour me with fo much attention in this unusual manner of pleading ) how often , I fay , have I feen him , without ufing his pen , and without any labour or ftudy ...
... lords , ( for I will prefume on your goodness , as you are pleafed to fa- vour me with fo much attention in this unusual manner of pleading ) how often , I fay , have I feen him , without ufing his pen , and without any labour or ftudy ...
Pàgina 664
... lords , I will lay open the very fenti- ments of my heart before you , and freely confefs my paffion for glory , which , though too keen , perhaps , is howeve . virtuous . For what I did in conjunction with you during my confulfhip ...
... lords , I will lay open the very fenti- ments of my heart before you , and freely confefs my paffion for glory , which , though too keen , perhaps , is howeve . virtuous . For what I did in conjunction with you during my confulfhip ...
Pàgina 665
... lords , it may feem a reflection on a per- fon's character to difcover any figns of fear , when he is entering on the defence of fo brave a man , and particularly un- becoming in me , that when T. Annius Milo himself is more concerned ...
... lords , it may feem a reflection on a per- fon's character to difcover any figns of fear , when he is entering on the defence of fo brave a man , and particularly un- becoming in me , that when T. Annius Milo himself is more concerned ...
Pàgina 666
... lords , and if you ever entertained any fears , dif- mifs them all . For if ever you had it in your power to determine in favour of brave and worthy men , or of deferving citizens ; in a word , if ever any occafion was prefent- ed to a ...
... lords , and if you ever entertained any fears , dif- mifs them all . For if ever you had it in your power to determine in favour of brave and worthy men , or of deferving citizens ; in a word , if ever any occafion was prefent- ed to a ...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... Vicesimus Knox Visualització completa - 1797 |
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