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 645
... moft abfolute despair . In fuch a conflict and ftruggle as this , was even 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 ...
... moft abfolute despair . In fuch a conflict and ftruggle as this , was even 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 ...
Pàgina 647
... moft fnatched from the jaws of fate , by the diftinguished love of the immortal gods towards you , and by means of my toils , counfels and dangers . And if the days in which we are preferved from ruin , be no lefs joyous and memorable ...
... moft fnatched from the jaws of fate , by the diftinguished love of the immortal gods towards you , and by means of my toils , counfels and dangers . And if the days in which we are preferved from ruin , be no lefs joyous and memorable ...
Pàgina 668
... moft the patron , of the fenate , uncle to that brave man M. Cato , now upon the bench , and tribune of the people , was kill- ed in his own houfe . And yet the people were not confulted upon his death , nor was any commiffion for a ...
... moft the patron , of the fenate , uncle to that brave man M. Cato , now upon the bench , and tribune of the people , was kill- ed in his own houfe . And yet the people were not confulted upon his death , nor was any commiffion for a ...
Pàgina 673
... moft dangerous quarter , and had ac- tually fecured that wild beast in the toils of justice , which he endeavoured to avoid : Immortal gods ! how favourable was the time and place for deftroying him ? When Clodius concealed himself ...
... moft dangerous quarter , and had ac- tually fecured that wild beast in the toils of justice , which he endeavoured to avoid : Immortal gods ! how favourable was the time and place for deftroying him ? When Clodius concealed himself ...
Pàgina 675
... moft defir- able event for anfwering the purposes of Clodius ; that on one fide there was a moft implacable hatred , on the other not the leaft ; that the one had been continu- ally employing himself in acts of violence , the other only ...
... moft defir- able event for anfwering the purposes of Clodius ; that on one fide there was a moft implacable hatred , on the other not the leaft ; that the one had been continu- ally employing himself in acts of violence , the other only ...
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