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... interest . To Englishmen who do not read Greek they are probably best known through the French translation of La Bruyère . In an edition of the Characters published in 1852 the Rev. J. G. Sheppard mentions an English translation by Mr F ...
... interest . To Englishmen who do not read Greek they are probably best known through the French translation of La Bruyère . In an edition of the Characters published in 1852 the Rev. J. G. Sheppard mentions an English translation by Mr F ...
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... interest for scholars . A translator of the Characters is forced to be- come also an editor . The text is corrupt , and has long been a field for the ingenuity of critics . It is thickly studded with passages on which hardly two ...
... interest for scholars . A translator of the Characters is forced to be- come also an editor . The text is corrupt , and has long been a field for the ingenuity of critics . It is thickly studded with passages on which hardly two ...
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... interest of the whole community , or of its most respected members ; preparations , again , for the reception or for the departure of guests ; and the making or the recompens- ing of gifts . It also belongs to the Magnifi- cent Man to ...
... interest of the whole community , or of its most respected members ; preparations , again , for the reception or for the departure of guests ; and the making or the recompens- ing of gifts . It also belongs to the Magnifi- cent Man to ...
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... interest . He effects this , indeed , at the cost of subtlety ; but this is a necessity of the style . In a style less cramping , an English writer has reached this special excel- lence in a far higher degree than Theophras- tus did ...
... interest . He effects this , indeed , at the cost of subtlety ; but this is a necessity of the style . In a style less cramping , an English writer has reached this special excel- lence in a far higher degree than Theophras- tus did ...
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... interest far more varied than the Characters of Theophrastus can claim . Hallam's deci- sion that the Greek writer , with no contempt- ible degree of merit , has been incomparably surpassed by his imitator ' , ' is in this sense just ...
... interest far more varied than the Characters of Theophrastus can claim . Hallam's deci- sion that the Greek writer , with no contempt- ible degree of merit , has been incomparably surpassed by his imitator ' , ' is in this sense just ...
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