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There is a censure , indeed , and a suffrage , which no man can escape , to which
one of his disposition is peculiarly liable , I mean that of his own mind . He trusts
his publication will be such as to risk nothing on this ground ; it is the only ...
There is a censure , indeed , and a suffrage , which no man can escape , to which
one of his disposition is peculiarly liable , I mean that of his own mind . He trusts
his publication will be such as to risk nothing on this ground ; it is the only ...
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Camillus is a barrister of the first eminence , possessed of great knowledge in his
profession , an acute reasoner , and a powerful pleader . In external appearance
nature has been less bountiful to Camillus : his figure is mean and ungraceful ...
Camillus is a barrister of the first eminence , possessed of great knowledge in his
profession , an acute reasoner , and a powerful pleader . In external appearance
nature has been less bountiful to Camillus : his figure is mean and ungraceful ...
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There is something in the look , the manner , the voice , and still more the silence
, of such a one as I mean , that has no connexion with any thing material ; at least
no more than just to make one think such a soul is lodged as it deserves .
There is something in the look , the manner , the voice , and still more the silence
, of such a one as I mean , that has no connexion with any thing material ; at least
no more than just to make one think such a soul is lodged as it deserves .
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not less than to please ; yet such was her hereditary propensity , that for many
successivé ages she continued more studious to cultivate the means of pleasing
than anxious to gather the materials of instruction . But when all her arts of
pleasing ...
not less than to please ; yet such was her hereditary propensity , that for many
successivé ages she continued more studious to cultivate the means of pleasing
than anxious to gather the materials of instruction . But when all her arts of
pleasing ...
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... and of science , as the only true means of rendering history instructive . In the
former of these classes we must rank almost all the celebrated historians of
ancient Greece and Rome . In general they merely relate distinguished events ;
but to ...
... and of science , as the only true means of rendering history instructive . In the
former of these classes we must rank almost all the celebrated historians of
ancient Greece and Rome . In general they merely relate distinguished events ;
but to ...
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| Title | The British Essayists: Lounger Volume 30 of The British Essayists, James Ferguson Volume 30 of The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical, James Ferguson |
| Editor | James Ferguson |
| Contributor | James Ferguson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jan 2006 |
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