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Warner Taylor. PREFACE THE principle upon which the essays in this volume were selected stands in need not so much of explanation as of justification . Most of them were favorites with our grandfathers , but make little bid for easy ...
Warner Taylor. PREFACE THE principle upon which the essays in this volume were selected stands in need not so much of explanation as of justification . Most of them were favorites with our grandfathers , but make little bid for easy ...
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... standing and respect , even admiration , for names that scholars conjure with , great care has been taken to offer essays that are interesting in their subject - matter and representative in their style . One principle governing the ...
... standing and respect , even admiration , for names that scholars conjure with , great care has been taken to offer essays that are interesting in their subject - matter and representative in their style . One principle governing the ...
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... standing . " Surely Commineus might have made the 1 Trajan and Marcus Aurelius were Roman Emperors . The latter is the author of the famous Meditations of Marcus Aurelius . 2 Commineus , French historian and statesman . same judgment ...
... standing . " Surely Commineus might have made the 1 Trajan and Marcus Aurelius were Roman Emperors . The latter is the author of the famous Meditations of Marcus Aurelius . 2 Commineus , French historian and statesman . same judgment ...
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... stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies , where neither they make for pleasure as with poets , nor for advantage as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell , this same truth is a naked and ...
... stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies , where neither they make for pleasure as with poets , nor for advantage as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell , this same truth is a naked and ...
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... stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adven- tures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of ...
... stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adven- tures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of ...
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