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 636
... observed to ap- proach them ? Did not all the confular fe- nators , whofe deftruction you have so often plotted , quit immediately the part of the houfe where you thought proper to place yourself ? How are you able to bear all this ...
... observed to ap- proach them ? Did not all the confular fe- nators , whofe deftruction you have so often plotted , quit immediately the part of the houfe where you thought proper to place yourself ? How are you able to bear all this ...
Pàgina 694
... observation of all the hiftorians , that while Cæfar made no difference of power , whether it was conferred or ufurp- ed , whether over thofe who loved , or thofe who feared him ; Pompey seemed to value none but what was offered ; nor ...
... observation of all the hiftorians , that while Cæfar made no difference of power , whether it was conferred or ufurp- ed , whether over thofe who loved , or thofe who feared him ; Pompey seemed to value none but what was offered ; nor ...
Pàgina 712
... observe any but what were pointed against characters , either ridicu- lous or profligate ; fuch as he defpifed for their follies , or hated for their vices ; and though he might provoke the spleen , and quicken the malice of his enemies ...
... observe any but what were pointed against characters , either ridicu- lous or profligate ; fuch as he defpifed for their follies , or hated for their vices ; and though he might provoke the spleen , and quicken the malice of his enemies ...
Pàgina 718
... observed by comparing them with the epiftles of the beft and greatelt , who flourished after- wards in Imperial Rome . Pliny's letters are justly admired by men of tafte : they fhew the fcholar , the wit , the fine gentle- man ; yet we ...
... observed by comparing them with the epiftles of the beft and greatelt , who flourished after- wards in Imperial Rome . Pliny's letters are justly admired by men of tafte : they fhew the fcholar , the wit , the fine gentle- man ; yet we ...
Pàgina 757
... observe a statelinefs and imperiousness in his manner ; which , to the rational and intelligent , was unamiable and offenfive ; by the weak and formal it was mistaken for dignity . In the exercife of horfemanship he ex- celled ; had a ...
... observe a statelinefs and imperiousness in his manner ; which , to the rational and intelligent , was unamiable and offenfive ; by the weak and formal it was mistaken for dignity . In the exercife of horfemanship he ex- celled ; had a ...
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