Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, Volume 1Sherman, 1824 |
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... Lord Byron , ' & c . & c . " The noblest study of mankind is man . " FROM THE EIGHTH LONDON EDITION . VOL . I. PHILADELPHIA : PUBLISHED BY A. SHERMAN , ( Agent . ) J. Harding , Printer . PREFACE , & c . THERE are three difficulties in ...
... Lord Byron , ' & c . & c . " The noblest study of mankind is man . " FROM THE EIGHTH LONDON EDITION . VOL . I. PHILADELPHIA : PUBLISHED BY A. SHERMAN , ( Agent . ) J. Harding , Printer . PREFACE , & c . THERE are three difficulties in ...
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... lord Bacon , should have no patrons but truth and reason.- Even the attractive prose of Dryden could not dignify dedications ; and perhaps they ought never to be resorted to , being as derogatory to the writer , as dull to the reader ...
... lord Bacon , should have no patrons but truth and reason.- Even the attractive prose of Dryden could not dignify dedications ; and perhaps they ought never to be resorted to , being as derogatory to the writer , as dull to the reader ...
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... lords , but not one Leonardo . " Cicero observed to a degenerate patrician , " I am the first of my family , but you are the last of yours . And since his time , those who value . 99 1 themselves merely on their ancestry , liave been ...
... lords , but not one Leonardo . " Cicero observed to a degenerate patrician , " I am the first of my family , but you are the last of yours . And since his time , those who value . 99 1 themselves merely on their ancestry , liave been ...
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... XXIII . All poets pretend to write for immortality , but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise . But Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds C2 IN FEW WORDS . 29 " ...
... XXIII . All poets pretend to write for immortality , but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise . But Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds C2 IN FEW WORDS . 29 " ...
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... Lords and Commons . And in politics , as in religion , it so happens , that we have less cha- rity for those who believe the half of our creed , than for those that deny the whole of it ; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan , he ...
... Lords and Commons . And in politics , as in religion , it so happens , that we have less cha- rity for those who believe the half of our creed , than for those that deny the whole of it ; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan , he ...
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