The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 9J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... first in- duced me to renew my acquaintance , which had been for many years interrupted , with the Athe- nian orators , from whofe private fpecches I had reafon to expect the clearcft light on the subject of inheritances ; and I ...
... first in- duced me to renew my acquaintance , which had been for many years interrupted , with the Athe- nian orators , from whofe private fpecches I had reafon to expect the clearcft light on the subject of inheritances ; and I ...
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... first apprized him , that this ancient orator must be carefully diftinguished from another of the fame name , who seems to have flourished at Rome in the reign of Trajan or Domitian ; for he is highly extolled in a fet epistle by the ...
... first apprized him , that this ancient orator must be carefully diftinguished from another of the fame name , who seems to have flourished at Rome in the reign of Trajan or Domitian ; for he is highly extolled in a fet epistle by the ...
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... first have spoken in publick at the age of twenty - five or twenty - fix ; whence we may fairly conclude , that Ifæus was not born after the ninetieth Olympiad ; and we can hardly believe that he was much older , fince he certainly ...
... first have spoken in publick at the age of twenty - five or twenty - fix ; whence we may fairly conclude , that Ifæus was not born after the ninetieth Olympiad ; and we can hardly believe that he was much older , fince he certainly ...
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... first orator of . Greece ; yet his private speeches are not superior in force or beauty to thofe of his teacher , who would probably have thundered with equal energy in the affembly of Athenian citizens , if his temper and inclination ...
... first orator of . Greece ; yet his private speeches are not superior in force or beauty to thofe of his teacher , who would probably have thundered with equal energy in the affembly of Athenian citizens , if his temper and inclination ...
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... First , it is hard to conceive , why Dionyfius , in the very beginning of his treatise , the fole object of which was to difplay the peculiar ex- cellence of Ifæus and the originality of his ge- nius , should affert , that he was ...
... First , it is hard to conceive , why Dionyfius , in the very beginning of his treatise , the fole object of which was to difplay the peculiar ex- cellence of Ifæus and the originality of his ge- nius , should affert , that he was ...
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