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... once . As respected the hand of man , Rome slept for ages in absolute security . She could suffer only by the wrath of Providence ; and , so long as she continued to be Rome , for many a genera- tion she only of all the monarchies has ...
... once . As respected the hand of man , Rome slept for ages in absolute security . She could suffer only by the wrath of Providence ; and , so long as she continued to be Rome , for many a genera- tion she only of all the monarchies has ...
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... once witnessed a blunder about as gross . The present Chancellor , in his first electioneering contest with the Lowthers , upon some occasion where he was recriminating upon the other party , and complaining that stratagems , which they ...
... once witnessed a blunder about as gross . The present Chancellor , in his first electioneering contest with the Lowthers , upon some occasion where he was recriminating upon the other party , and complaining that stratagems , which they ...
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... once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman simply as such wore as the inseparable adjunct and symbol of his rank . By this action he wished to give emphasis to the accompa- nying words , in which he protested ...
... once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman simply as such wore as the inseparable adjunct and symbol of his rank . By this action he wished to give emphasis to the accompa- nying words , in which he protested ...
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... once observed , that if that question were left to be collected from the suffrages already expressed in books , and scattered throughout the literature of all nations , the scale would be found to have turned pro- digiously in Cæsar's ...
... once observed , that if that question were left to be collected from the suffrages already expressed in books , and scattered throughout the literature of all nations , the scale would be found to have turned pro- digiously in Cæsar's ...
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... once proclaimed his civic gran- deur , and concealed his baldness , a defect which was more mortifying to a Roman than it would be to ourselves , from the peculiar theory which then pre- vailed as to its probable origin . A gratitude of ...
... once proclaimed his civic gran- deur , and concealed his baldness , a defect which was more mortifying to a Roman than it would be to ourselves , from the peculiar theory which then pre- vailed as to its probable origin . A gratitude of ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men ..., Bind 1 Thomas De Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2006 |
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