Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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... ancient Greeks and Romans , which cost them nothing , is the principal reason why we cannot arrive at that grandeur of soul and perfection of knowledge that was in them . But the learned languages , after all , are indispensable to form ...
... ancient Greeks and Romans , which cost them nothing , is the principal reason why we cannot arrive at that grandeur of soul and perfection of knowledge that was in them . But the learned languages , after all , are indispensable to form ...
Side 178
... ancient . Give these nations back their former governments , and all their national energies would return , and enable them to accom- modate themselves to any conceivable change of climate ; but no conceivable change of climate would ...
... ancient . Give these nations back their former governments , and all their national energies would return , and enable them to accom- modate themselves to any conceivable change of climate ; but no conceivable change of climate would ...
Side 181
... ancient Romans , the pure and unbending principles of Christianity , we try those noble delinquents unjustly , inasmuch as we condemn them by the severe sen- tence of an " ex post facto ' law . Strong as our passions are , they may be ...
... ancient Romans , the pure and unbending principles of Christianity , we try those noble delinquents unjustly , inasmuch as we condemn them by the severe sen- tence of an " ex post facto ' law . Strong as our passions are , they may be ...
Side 204
... ancients were not ig- norant of their value ; nay , it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate , while under the operation of rubbing after the bath . Arbitration has this advantage , there are some points of contest ...
... ancients were not ig- norant of their value ; nay , it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate , while under the operation of rubbing after the bath . Arbitration has this advantage , there are some points of contest ...
Side 223
... ancients them- selves ; for that alone is true antiquity , which embraces the antiquity of the world , and not that which would refer us back to a period when the world was young . By whom is this true antiquity enjoyed ? Not by the ...
... ancients them- selves ; for that alone is true antiquity , which embraces the antiquity of the world , and not that which would refer us back to a period when the world was young . By whom is this true antiquity enjoyed ? Not by the ...
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