The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 9J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... should I indeed have been ambitious of obtaining any protection for the following work , which must fucceed or fail by its own worth or demerit , and cannot be supported by the splendour of a name , if the obligations , which Your ...
... should I indeed have been ambitious of obtaining any protection for the following work , which must fucceed or fail by its own worth or demerit , and cannot be supported by the splendour of a name , if the obligations , which Your ...
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... should pre- fer the fufpicion of being a flatterer to the charge of being ungrateful ; but I must not forget that it is Yourself , whom I am addreffing , and I could not write to You with pleasure what I knew You would read with pain ...
... should pre- fer the fufpicion of being a flatterer to the charge of being ungrateful ; but I must not forget that it is Yourself , whom I am addreffing , and I could not write to You with pleasure what I knew You would read with pain ...
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... should affert , that he was chiefly illuftrious for having given inftructions to Demofthenes : this is not only contradictory , but the fact itself is fo far from being true , that , if his pupil had never been born , his reputation ...
... should affert , that he was chiefly illuftrious for having given inftructions to Demofthenes : this is not only contradictory , but the fact itself is fo far from being true , that , if his pupil had never been born , his reputation ...
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... should have feen more clearly the propriety of the comparison with which the critick of Halicarnaffus illuftrates his observations ; for he declares his opinion , that the fpeeches of Lyfias resemble ancient pieces of painting in the ...
... should have feen more clearly the propriety of the comparison with which the critick of Halicarnaffus illuftrates his observations ; for he declares his opinion , that the fpeeches of Lyfias resemble ancient pieces of painting in the ...
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... should exist , of general admiration ; but why it is not fufficient to call fuch a man the greatest , with- out infifting that he is the only , orator , or why an advocate , who never applied his talents to the fenatorial species of ...
... should exist , of general admiration ; but why it is not fufficient to call fuch a man the greatest , with- out infifting that he is the only , orator , or why an advocate , who never applied his talents to the fenatorial species of ...
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