The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 9J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... 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 Lordship has conferred on me , were not of such a kind , as to call aloud for the moft open and the ...
... 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 Lordship has conferred on me , were not of such a kind , as to call aloud for the moft open and the ...
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... must neceffarily be incurred , I 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 ...
... must neceffarily be incurred , I 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 ...
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... must have been dry , if not unintelli- gible , to the herd of grammarians and philolo- gers , by whom the old monuments of Grecian learning were faved from deftruction , they seem to have been greatly neglected ; for , out of at leaft ...
... must have been dry , if not unintelli- gible , to the herd of grammarians and philolo- gers , by whom the old monuments of Grecian learning were faved from deftruction , they seem to have been greatly neglected ; for , out of at leaft ...
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... must have ftudied the compofitions of Lyfias , and poffibly began with imitating them ; but find- ing them too foft and delicate for his forenfick combats , which required ftronger nerves and harfher features , he changed his courfe ...
... must have ftudied the compofitions of Lyfias , and poffibly began with imitating them ; but find- ing them too foft and delicate for his forenfick combats , which required ftronger nerves and harfher features , he changed his courfe ...
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... must neceffarily be the object , if ever it 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 ...
... must neceffarily be the object , if ever it 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 ...
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