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... give the date . But he does not speak of either with approbation ; and I have not been able to learn that there is any other . The first object of my book is to make these b lively pictures of old Greek manners better known to English.
... give the date . But he does not speak of either with approbation ; and I have not been able to learn that there is any other . The first object of my book is to make these b lively pictures of old Greek manners better known to English.
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... object to philosophical truths receiving humorous illustration . But when a delineation of cha- racter has been so worked up that every sen- tence is a point or a witticism , its fitness to illustrate general truths is spoilt by the in ...
... object to philosophical truths receiving humorous illustration . But when a delineation of cha- racter has been so worked up that every sen- tence is a point or a witticism , its fitness to illustrate general truths is spoilt by the in ...
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... objects of common ambi- tion , or go where others are foremost .... He will be inactive and dilatory save where there is question of great honour or of a great work ; he will engage in few things , but these shall be great and famous ...
... objects of common ambi- tion , or go where others are foremost .... He will be inactive and dilatory save where there is question of great honour or of a great work ; he will engage in few things , but these shall be great and famous ...
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... objects of common ambition . ' Theophrastus would have told us that such a person scorns to walk through the Market- place in his spurs , or to speak of the privilege which Antipater has conferred upon him of exporting timber free of ...
... objects of common ambition . ' Theophrastus would have told us that such a person scorns to walk through the Market- place in his spurs , or to speak of the privilege which Antipater has conferred upon him of exporting timber free of ...
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... objects have been kept in view . ( 1 ) The juxtaposi- tion of Characters closely akin , e . g . Penu- riousness , Meanness , Avarice . ( 2 ) The juxta- position of such as present a direct contrast , e . g . the Oligarch and the Patron ...
... objects have been kept in view . ( 1 ) The juxtaposi- tion of Characters closely akin , e . g . Penu- riousness , Meanness , Avarice . ( 2 ) The juxta- position of such as present a direct contrast , e . g . the Oligarch and the Patron ...
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