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... give information in the notes which can at the present day be obtained in a more convenient form in Dr. Smith's Classical Dictionary and Dictionary of Anti- quities , many of the articles in which are written by Mr. Long himself . The ...
... give information in the notes which can at the present day be obtained in a more convenient form in Dr. Smith's Classical Dictionary and Dictionary of Anti- quities , many of the articles in which are written by Mr. Long himself . The ...
Page xvi
... give Plutarch's meaning in plain languago ; to give all his meaning , and neither more nor less . If I have failed in any case , it is becauso I could do no better . But , though I havo not always succeeded in expressing exactly what I ...
... give Plutarch's meaning in plain languago ; to give all his meaning , and neither more nor less . If I have failed in any case , it is becauso I could do no better . But , though I havo not always succeeded in expressing exactly what I ...
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... give me leave to say , the first attempt of doing it from the originals . " This is aimed at North's version , of which Dryden remarks in his Life of Plutarch : " As that translation was only from the French , so it suffered this double ...
... give me leave to say , the first attempt of doing it from the originals . " This is aimed at North's version , of which Dryden remarks in his Life of Plutarch : " As that translation was only from the French , so it suffered this double ...
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... give a public account of how I had discharged it , when my father rose in the public assembly and enjoined mo not to say I went , but we went , nor to say that I said , but we said , throughout my story , giving my colleague his share ...
... give a public account of how I had discharged it , when my father rose in the public assembly and enjoined mo not to say I went , but we went , nor to say that I said , but we said , throughout my story , giving my colleague his share ...
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... gives us another Wrote so much . No doubt his ignorance of the Latin language must not be taken as a literal statement , and probably means that he was not skilled in it as a spoken tongue , for we can scarcely imagine that he was ...
... gives us another Wrote so much . No doubt his ignorance of the Latin language must not be taken as a literal statement , and probably means that he was not skilled in it as a spoken tongue , for we can scarcely imagine that he was ...
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