Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 127
... prince ; a per- sedentary pursuits abated nothing of fidious , encroaching , and dangerous the activity and vigilance of his go- neighbour ; an unkind and ungene - vernment : and though the learning rous relation . He was equally prodi ...
... prince ; a per- sedentary pursuits abated nothing of fidious , encroaching , and dangerous the activity and vigilance of his go- neighbour ; an unkind and ungene - vernment : and though the learning rous relation . He was equally prodi ...
Page 128
... prince of his time for wis- dom , virtue , and ability , and the most powerful in extent of dominion , of all Hume ... prince's character was his military public and private life , is almost talents ; no man ever in that roman- without a ...
... prince of his time for wis- dom , virtue , and ability , and the most powerful in extent of dominion , of all Hume ... prince's character was his military public and private life , is almost talents ; no man ever in that roman- without a ...
Page 140
... prince ; fortune , to disappoint them of all their but for this reproach , the most malig- influence . His beneficent disposition nant scrutiny of his conduct , which was clouded by a manner not gra- in every circumstance is now tho ...
... prince ; fortune , to disappoint them of all their but for this reproach , the most malig- influence . His beneficent disposition nant scrutiny of his conduct , which was clouded by a manner not gra- in every circumstance is now tho ...
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