Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: essays, moral, political and literary, Band 1Bell & Bradfute, 1825 - 544 Seiten |
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... neither could bear to- tal slavery nor total liberty , Nec totam servitutem , nec totam libertatem pati possunt . This remark a celebrated poet has translated and applied to the English , in his lively LIBERTY OF THE PRESS .
... neither could bear to- tal slavery nor total liberty , Nec totam servitutem , nec totam libertatem pati possunt . This remark a celebrated poet has translated and applied to the English , in his lively LIBERTY OF THE PRESS .
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... poets , as well as divines , from the beginning of the world to this day . Some exalt our species to the skies , and represent man as a kind of human demigod , who derives his origin from heaven , and retains evident marks of his ...
... poets , as well as divines , from the beginning of the world to this day . Some exalt our species to the skies , and represent man as a kind of human demigod , who derives his origin from heaven , and retains evident marks of his ...
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... poets , orators , historians , painters , architects , sculptors , and musicians . With regard to the stage , they have ex- celled even the Greeks , who far excelled the English . And , in common life , they have , in a great measure ...
... poets , orators , historians , painters , architects , sculptors , and musicians . With regard to the stage , they have ex- celled even the Greeks , who far excelled the English . And , in common life , they have , in a great measure ...
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... poet or philosopher , to be of an in- ferior nature to those which are requisite for such an un- dertaking . Greece ... poets and philosophers ; but what orators are ever mentioned ? 92 ESSAY XIII .
... poet or philosopher , to be of an in- ferior nature to those which are requisite for such an un- dertaking . Greece ... poets and philosophers ; but what orators are ever mentioned ? 92 ESSAY XIII .
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... poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr Pope . " We are told , that when Demosthenes was to plead , all ingenious men flocked to Athens from the most remote parts of Greece , as to the most celebrated spectacle of the ...
... poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr Pope . " We are told , that when Demosthenes was to plead , all ingenious men flocked to Athens from the most remote parts of Greece , as to the most celebrated spectacle of the ...
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