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... complete works was undertaken , and these two large volumes , published a few years later , contain not only substantially all of Alfred's own writings , but illus- trative essays and historical and literary notes by many of the leading ...
... complete works was undertaken , and these two large volumes , published a few years later , contain not only substantially all of Alfred's own writings , but illus- trative essays and historical and literary notes by many of the leading ...
Page 268
... legislative genius of Lycurgus shine forth united in that patriot king . " Says Green , in his History of the English People : " Alfred was the noblest as he was the most complete embodiment of all 268 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS .
... legislative genius of Lycurgus shine forth united in that patriot king . " Says Green , in his History of the English People : " Alfred was the noblest as he was the most complete embodiment of all 268 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS .
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noblest as he was the most complete embodiment of all that is great , all that is lovable , in the English temper . He com- bined , as no other man has ever combined , its practical energy , its patient and enduring force , its profound ...
noblest as he was the most complete embodiment of all that is great , all that is lovable , in the English temper . He com- bined , as no other man has ever combined , its practical energy , its patient and enduring force , its profound ...
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... complete literary success among contemporaries it is imperative that a man should either have no real opinions , or be able to conceal such as he possesses ; that he should have one eye on the market and the other on the public journals ...
... complete literary success among contemporaries it is imperative that a man should either have no real opinions , or be able to conceal such as he possesses ; that he should have one eye on the market and the other on the public journals ...
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... complete confusion is scarcely to be imagined , but at one stroke it was swept away and order and consistency were established in its place . In the choice of names ARTEDI was throughout very strict ; he rejected all such as were ...
... complete confusion is scarcely to be imagined , but at one stroke it was swept away and order and consistency were established in its place . In the choice of names ARTEDI was throughout very strict ; he rejected all such as were ...
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Page 12 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
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