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... writer in anticipating the future canonization of his patron , and his instalment amongst the heavenly hosts , begging him to keep his distance warily from this or that constellation , and to be cautious of throwing his weight into ...
... writer in anticipating the future canonization of his patron , and his instalment amongst the heavenly hosts , begging him to keep his distance warily from this or that constellation , and to be cautious of throwing his weight into ...
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... writer's feeling was exaggerated , but because it was expressed coarsely , and as a physical power : now , every thing physical is measurable by weight , motion , and resistance ; and is therefore definite . But the very essence of ...
... writer's feeling was exaggerated , but because it was expressed coarsely , and as a physical power : now , every thing physical is measurable by weight , motion , and resistance ; and is therefore definite . But the very essence of ...
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... com- mences the first page of what in modern times we understand by anecdotes . Suetonius is the earliest writer in that department of biography ; so far as we know , he may be held first to have devised THE CÆSARS . 25.
... com- mences the first page of what in modern times we understand by anecdotes . Suetonius is the earliest writer in that department of biography ; so far as we know , he may be held first to have devised THE CÆSARS . 25.
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... writers , whose sketches are collected under the general title of the Augustan History , followed in the same track . Though full of entertainment , and of the most curious researches , they are all of them entirely unknown , except to ...
... writers , whose sketches are collected under the general title of the Augustan History , followed in the same track . Though full of entertainment , and of the most curious researches , they are all of them entirely unknown , except to ...
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... writers shrank from the attempt to alter them . In another instance of his lite- rary labors , he showed a very just sense of true dig- nity . Rightly conceiving that every thing patriotic was dignified , and that to illustrate or ...
... writers shrank from the attempt to alter them . In another instance of his lite- rary labors , he showed a very just sense of true dig- nity . Rightly conceiving that every thing patriotic was dignified , and that to illustrate or ...
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