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It is well known that Caligula had great pretensions to the persuasive art , and
that none pleased him better than those who compared him to Cicero . None
deny that the tyrant was a fluent and elegant speaker ; me discote o mes relate
excele ...
It is well known that Caligula had great pretensions to the persuasive art , and
that none pleased him better than those who compared him to Cicero . None
deny that the tyrant was a fluent and elegant speaker ; me discote o mes relate
excele ...
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Well aware of the licentious habits of the young emperor , he thought he could
not please him better , or more effectually curb his lawless passions , than by
procuring him a beautiful mistress . With this view he engaged the services of his
...
Well aware of the licentious habits of the young emperor , he thought he could
not please him better , or more effectually curb his lawless passions , than by
procuring him a beautiful mistress . With this view he engaged the services of his
...
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It is much better and more creditable to understand one science or. * Quid ex his
metum demit , cupiditatem eximit , libidinem frænat ? Ad geometriam transemus ,
et ad musicum ; nihil apud illas invenies quod vetet timere , vetet cupere ; quæ ...
It is much better and more creditable to understand one science or. * Quid ex his
metum demit , cupiditatem eximit , libidinem frænat ? Ad geometriam transemus ,
et ad musicum ; nihil apud illas invenies quod vetet timere , vetet cupere ; quæ ...
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much better and more creditable to understand one science or art thoroughly ,
than to have a vague , smattering knowledge of a dozen ; at the same time it is
not strange that none make louder pretensions , than those condemned by
Seneca .
much better and more creditable to understand one science or art thoroughly ,
than to have a vague , smattering knowledge of a dozen ; at the same time it is
not strange that none make louder pretensions , than those condemned by
Seneca .
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I was not desirous for my own part to set him aside altogether , but I could not
allow him to be preferred to those better authors whom he never ceased to attack
, since , being conscious that he had adopted a different style from theirs , he ...
I was not desirous for my own part to set him aside altogether , but I could not
allow him to be preferred to those better authors whom he never ceased to attack
, since , being conscious that he had adopted a different style from theirs , he ...
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الصفحة 357 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
الصفحة 16 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
الصفحة 115 - And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
الصفحة 115 - For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
الصفحة 208 - ENGEL'S (CARL) Music of the Most Ancient Nations ; particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, And Hebrews; with Special Reference to the Discoveries in Western Asia and in Egypt. With 100 Illustrations. 8vo. 16s. ENGLAND (HISTORY or) from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713—83. By LORD MAHON (now Earl Stanhope). Library Edition, 7 Vols. 8vo. 93«.
الصفحة 57 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
الصفحة 55 - ... by the Hindus, we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians ; who, though as much inclined as other nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of a foreign people, unanimously agree, that the game was imported from the west of India, together with the charming fables of Vishnusarman in the sixth century of our era.
الصفحة 16 - And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan ; is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
الصفحة 93 - ... the fruits of their industry, and driven, in the midst of an inclement season, to seek a shelter for themselves and their helpless families where chance may guide them?
الصفحة 93 - It is no secret, that a persecution, accompanied with all the circumstances of ferocious cruelty, which have in all ages distinguished that dreadful calamity, is now raging in this country.