The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 9J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... was no lefs amiable than uncommon : fo totally free was he from envy , the vice of little fouls , that he ' was always eager to encourage the appear- ance of literary merit , wherever it could be found 6 EPISTLE DEDICATORY .
... was no lefs amiable than uncommon : fo totally free was he from envy , the vice of little fouls , that he ' was always eager to encourage the appear- ance of literary merit , wherever it could be found 6 EPISTLE DEDICATORY .
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... appears to have been delivered in the fourth year of the ninety - feventh Olympiad , or two thousand one hundred and fixty - fix years ago : now it is very probable that he was then at leaft in his twenty - seventh year ; for it has ...
... appears to have been delivered in the fourth year of the ninety - feventh Olympiad , or two thousand one hundred and fixty - fix years ago : now it is very probable that he was then at leaft in his twenty - seventh year ; for it has ...
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... appears to have been de- livered on any national queftion ; and this may be the reason , why most of the ancients , who are fo copious in praising the smoothness of Iso- crates , the graces of Lyfias , the founding periods of Æfchines ...
... appears to have been de- livered on any national queftion ; and this may be the reason , why most of the ancients , who are fo copious in praising the smoothness of Iso- crates , the graces of Lyfias , the founding periods of Æfchines ...
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... appears to have confined his talents to the narrow limits of the bar and the compofition of forenfick arguments ; which , however interefting to lawyers , cannot be fuppofed to attract the notice of fcholars in general so much as the ...
... appears to have confined his talents to the narrow limits of the bar and the compofition of forenfick arguments ; which , however interefting to lawyers , cannot be fuppofed to attract the notice of fcholars in general so much as the ...
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... appears to be this : purity , accuracy , pro- priety , conciseness , perfpicuity ( in the perfect mixture or rather union of which Hermogenes makes the popular flyle confift ) , were common to both of them in an equal degree , and both ...
... appears to be this : purity , accuracy , pro- priety , conciseness , perfpicuity ( in the perfect mixture or rather union of which Hermogenes makes the popular flyle confift ) , were common to both of them in an equal degree , and both ...
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