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
... once remifs , not any thing can hap- pen agreeable to your defires : witness the then powerful arms of Lacedemon , which a just attention to your interefts enabled you to vanquish : and this man's late in- folent attempt , which our ...
... once remifs , not any thing can hap- pen agreeable to your defires : witness the then powerful arms of Lacedemon , which a just attention to your interefts enabled you to vanquish : and this man's late in- folent attempt , which our ...
Pàgina 618
... once fettled , we refolve to man our fleet with ftrangers and foreigners ; then find it ne- ceflary to fupply their place ourselves . In the midft of thefe delays , what we are fail- ing to defend , the enemy is already mafter of : for ...
... once fettled , we refolve to man our fleet with ftrangers and foreigners ; then find it ne- ceflary to fupply their place ourselves . In the midft of thefe delays , what we are fail- ing to defend , the enemy is already mafter of : for ...
Pàgina 621
... once commanded , but thofe alliances and favourable inci- dents , which fortune hath provided for us . To begin on this occafion with a difplay of Philip's power , or to prefs you to exert your vigour , by motives drawn from hence , is ...
... once commanded , but thofe alliances and favourable inci- dents , which fortune hath provided for us . To begin on this occafion with a difplay of Philip's power , or to prefs you to exert your vigour , by motives drawn from hence , is ...
Pàgina 622
... once to the ground . For it is not , no , Atheni- ans ! it is not poffible to found a lafting power upon injuftice , perjury , and trea- chery . Thefe may perhaps fucceed for once ; and borrow for a while , from hope , a gay and ...
... once to the ground . For it is not , no , Atheni- ans ! it is not poffible to found a lafting power upon injuftice , perjury , and trea- chery . Thefe may perhaps fucceed for once ; and borrow for a while , from hope , a gay and ...
Pàgina 623
... once it approaches their own territory , then they are all de- tected . If there be any one among you who , from Philip's good fortune , concludes that he must prove a formidable enemy ; fuch reasoning is not unworthy a man of pru ...
... once it approaches their own territory , then they are all de- tected . If there be any one among you who , from Philip's good fortune , concludes that he must prove a formidable enemy ; fuch reasoning is not unworthy a man of pru ...
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