The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, Volume 21John Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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... seemed to him so worthy of regard , whether looked at as a whole , inspiring noble and serious reflec- tions , or viewed in detail , when each separate atom ap- pears pitiful and often ludicrous . The infinite distance between these ...
... seemed to him so worthy of regard , whether looked at as a whole , inspiring noble and serious reflec- tions , or viewed in detail , when each separate atom ap- pears pitiful and often ludicrous . The infinite distance between these ...
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... seemed beneficial to the whole ; and this men call per- fect Democracy . Others chose to be governed by a select number of such as most excelled in wisdom and virtue , and this , according to the signification of the word , was called ...
... seemed beneficial to the whole ; and this men call per- fect Democracy . Others chose to be governed by a select number of such as most excelled in wisdom and virtue , and this , according to the signification of the word , was called ...
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... seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye - pleasing flow- ers ; thickets , which being lined with most pleasant shade , were witnessed so , too , by the cheerful disposition of many ...
... seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye - pleasing flow- ers ; thickets , which being lined with most pleasant shade , were witnessed so , too , by the cheerful disposition of many ...
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... seemed to him opposed to the exist- ing state of things , impossible of practice , and mad in a degree beyond all others . ' The essence of the teaching that eventually overthrew this old ' order of things ' and begat a new and better ...
... seemed to him opposed to the exist- ing state of things , impossible of practice , and mad in a degree beyond all others . ' The essence of the teaching that eventually overthrew this old ' order of things ' and begat a new and better ...
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... seemed puny compared with that Lygian . Sen- ators , vestals , Cæsar , the Augustians , and the people gazed with the delight of experts at his mighty limbs as large as tree - trunks , at his breast as large as two shields . joined ...
... seemed puny compared with that Lygian . Sen- ators , vestals , Cæsar , the Augustians , and the people gazed with the delight of experts at his mighty limbs as large as tree - trunks , at his breast as large as two shields . joined ...
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