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Page 73
... present life , amid the unexpected emergencies , the desperate alternatives , the calls for instant decision , the pressing necessities and the anxious hazards , of a course full of uncertainty and peril . He had before his eyes , day ...
... present life , amid the unexpected emergencies , the desperate alternatives , the calls for instant decision , the pressing necessities and the anxious hazards , of a course full of uncertainty and peril . He had before his eyes , day ...
Page 121
... present time . In which I have followed all the antique Poets historicall ; first Homere , who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man , the one in his Ilias , the other in his Odysseis ...
... present time . In which I have followed all the antique Poets historicall ; first Homere , who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man , the one in his Ilias , the other in his Odysseis ...
Page 157
... present and the last century , common both to its monarchical and its democratic embodiments , than which , with all its faults and defects , our western civilization has produced few things more admirable . There were three ...
... present and the last century , common both to its monarchical and its democratic embodiments , than which , with all its faults and defects , our western civilization has produced few things more admirable . There were three ...
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