English Prose: Eighteenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1911 |
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... they had to transact with the senate or people . Cæsar , therefore , was extremely desirous to add him to the party , or to engage him rather in particular measures with himself ; and no sooner entered into the 18 ENGLISH PROSE.
... they had to transact with the senate or people . Cæsar , therefore , was extremely desirous to add him to the party , or to engage him rather in particular measures with himself ; and no sooner entered into the 18 ENGLISH PROSE.
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... particular in your accusation without a particular assurance of the truth of it ; nor so forward with your charge , without being as ready with your proof . Tell me , then , in God's name , nay , tell the public all that you know of me ...
... particular in your accusation without a particular assurance of the truth of it ; nor so forward with your charge , without being as ready with your proof . Tell me , then , in God's name , nay , tell the public all that you know of me ...
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... particular sciences ? Is not that opposition to all science whatsoever , the phrensy of the ancient and modern sceptics , built on the same foundation ? Or can you produce so much as one argument against the reality of corporeal things ...
... particular sciences ? Is not that opposition to all science whatsoever , the phrensy of the ancient and modern sceptics , built on the same foundation ? Or can you produce so much as one argument against the reality of corporeal things ...
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... particular vice , and trace it through its effects and con- sequences , and then you will clearly perceive the advantage it brings to the public . " Drunkenness , for instance , is by your sober moralists thought a pernicious vice , but ...
... particular vice , and trace it through its effects and con- sequences , and then you will clearly perceive the advantage it brings to the public . " Drunkenness , for instance , is by your sober moralists thought a pernicious vice , but ...
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... particular vice through its consequences and effects , and show the vast advantage they all are of to the public . The true springs that actuate the great machine of commerce , and make a flourishing state , have been hitherto little ...
... particular vice through its consequences and effects , and show the vast advantage they all are of to the public . The true springs that actuate the great machine of commerce , and make a flourishing state , have been hitherto little ...
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Page 82 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.