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HERE is no poetical production of antiquity , concerning which there has been a
greater diversity of opinion , than the Pharsalia of Lucan . It is a work , which has
excited much praise and much censure . Some have thought it was not entitled to
...
HERE is no poetical production of antiquity , concerning which there has been a
greater diversity of opinion , than the Pharsalia of Lucan . It is a work , which has
excited much praise and much censure . Some have thought it was not entitled to
...
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The good opinion of such you will be ambitious to attain , while you have a true
regard to virtue . But the popularity , which I would dissuade you from seeking , is
that , which consists in the indiscriminate applauses of the students , which is ...
The good opinion of such you will be ambitious to attain , while you have a true
regard to virtue . But the popularity , which I would dissuade you from seeking , is
that , which consists in the indiscriminate applauses of the students , which is ...
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Having now collected our proofs , let us make a brief comparison of the facts and
opinions , that have been stated , to see if we can make such an arrangement , as
will comprehend the present appearance of the world , and reconcile it with the ...
Having now collected our proofs , let us make a brief comparison of the facts and
opinions , that have been stated , to see if we can make such an arrangement , as
will comprehend the present appearance of the world , and reconcile it with the ...
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The theory , which has now been stated , and in the opinion of the writer proved ,
is very ancient . But it has come down to us in a mutilated form , as the
illustrations , at first used to explain it , have been misunderstood . The
Chaldeans ...
The theory , which has now been stated , and in the opinion of the writer proved ,
is very ancient . But it has come down to us in a mutilated form , as the
illustrations , at first used to explain it , have been misunderstood . The
Chaldeans ...
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... in the opinion of the academy , “ may entitle their authors to be considered , as
competitors “ for this biennial premium , the academy will be pleased " to adopt
such regulations , as they in their wisdom may “ judge to be proper and
necessary ...
... in the opinion of the academy , “ may entitle their authors to be considered , as
competitors “ for this biennial premium , the academy will be pleased " to adopt
such regulations , as they in their wisdom may “ judge to be proper and
necessary ...
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Page 91 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 91 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Page 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Page 93 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Page 78 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Page 92 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Page 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 93 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...
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| Title | The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volume 2 |
| Contributor | Phi Beta Kappa. Massachusetts Alpha (Harvard University) |
| Publisher | W. Hilliard., 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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