Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 16
... means , not a man who rules by love , but a man who loves rule . The Attic writers of the best age used the word píλapxos in the sense which we assign to it . Would Mr. Croker translate piλó- σopos , a man who acquires wisdom by means ...
... means , not a man who rules by love , but a man who loves rule . The Attic writers of the best age used the word píλapxos in the sense which we assign to it . Would Mr. Croker translate piλó- σopos , a man who acquires wisdom by means ...
Page 35
... means inclined to divert any part of the fund of corruption to purposes which he considered as idle . He had eminent talents for governments and for debate . But he had paid little attention to books , and felt little respect for ...
... means inclined to divert any part of the fund of corruption to purposes which he considered as idle . He had eminent talents for governments and for debate . But he had paid little attention to books , and felt little respect for ...
Page 36
... means of comfortable subsistence . The prices paid by booksellers to authors were so low that a man of considerable talents and unremitting industry could do little more than provide for the day which was passing over him . The lean ...
... means of comfortable subsistence . The prices paid by booksellers to authors were so low that a man of considerable talents and unremitting industry could do little more than provide for the day which was passing over him . The lean ...
Page 39
... means of subsistence from their political friends . Richardson , like a man of sense , kept his shop ; and his shop ... mean , compared with the full and accurate information which we possess respecting his proceedings and habits towards ...
... means of subsistence from their political friends . Richardson , like a man of sense , kept his shop ; and his shop ... mean , compared with the full and accurate information which we possess respecting his proceedings and habits towards ...
Page 47
... means , but as an end , and who proposed to themselves , as the object of their pursuit , the prosperity of the state as distinct from the prosperity of the individuals who compose the state . His calm and settled opinion seems to have ...
... means , but as an end , and who proposed to themselves , as the object of their pursuit , the prosperity of the state as distinct from the prosperity of the individuals who compose the state . His calm and settled opinion seems to have ...
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