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... fortune , which the poet Virgil promised to himself , and indeed obtained ; who got as much glory of eloquence , wit , and learning in the expressing of the observations of husbandry , as of the heroical acts of Eneas ; Nec sum animi ...
... fortune , which the poet Virgil promised to himself , and indeed obtained ; who got as much glory of eloquence , wit , and learning in the expressing of the observations of husbandry , as of the heroical acts of Eneas ; Nec sum animi ...
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... fortune for the prizes ; and some came as merchants to utter their commodities ; and some came to make good cheer , and meet their friends ; and some came to look on ; and that he was one of them that came to look on . " But men must ...
... fortune for the prizes ; and some came as merchants to utter their commodities ; and some came to make good cheer , and meet their friends ; and some came to look on ; and that he was one of them that came to look on . " But men must ...
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... fortune and disturbance ; as if it were not a thing much more happy to fail in good and virtuous ends for the public , than to obtain all that we can wish to our- selves in our private fortune ; as Gonsalvo , addressing his soldiers and ...
... fortune and disturbance ; as if it were not a thing much more happy to fail in good and virtuous ends for the public , than to obtain all that we can wish to our- selves in our private fortune ; as Gonsalvo , addressing his soldiers and ...
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... fortune ; for if we might have a certainty and perpetuity in our pleasures , the certainty and continuance of them would advance their price . But when we see it is but thus with us , " We count it much to postpone death for awhile ...
... fortune ; for if we might have a certainty and perpetuity in our pleasures , the certainty and continuance of them would advance their price . But when we see it is but thus with us , " We count it much to postpone death for awhile ...
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... fortune , others for love , others for the arts , others for a varied kind of life ; so among the poets ( heroic , satiric , tragic , comic ) are everywhere inter- spersed representations of characters , though generally exag- gerated ...
... fortune , others for love , others for the arts , others for a varied kind of life ; so among the poets ( heroic , satiric , tragic , comic ) are everywhere inter- spersed representations of characters , though generally exag- gerated ...
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