The Letters of Pliny the Younger: With Observations on Each Letter ; and an Essay on Pliny's Life, Addressed to Charles Lord Boyle, Volume 2J. Bettenham, 1751 |
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... writing to a friend in par- ticular , than to the world in general . Farewell , OBSERVATIONS . There are fome few obfcure paffages in this epiftle , which embarrass the tranflation , and interrupt the thread of a very curious narrative ...
... writing to a friend in par- ticular , than to the world in general . Farewell , OBSERVATIONS . There are fome few obfcure paffages in this epiftle , which embarrass the tranflation , and interrupt the thread of a very curious narrative ...
Page 42
... writers fix his birth at Verona ; but HARDUINUS , the best , and latest editor of his works , fays , he was born at Rome . The time of his birth was the tenth year of TIBERIUS , and of Rome , the feven hundred and feventy fifth , in the ...
... writers fix his birth at Verona ; but HARDUINUS , the best , and latest editor of his works , fays , he was born at Rome . The time of his birth was the tenth year of TIBERIUS , and of Rome , the feven hundred and feventy fifth , in the ...
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... writing fuch a falfhood : but to fhew at once , that SUETONIUS was not the author of fo erroneous a scrap of hiftory , the life it- felf begins with an egregious error , PLINIUS SECUNDUS Novocomenfis , abfolutely mistaking the nephew ...
... writing fuch a falfhood : but to fhew at once , that SUETONIUS was not the author of fo erroneous a scrap of hiftory , the life it- felf begins with an egregious error , PLINIUS SECUNDUS Novocomenfis , abfolutely mistaking the nephew ...
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... writers of the æra , in which it happened , fo that we might have feen the various reflections upon fuch a phænomenon , in an age when natural philofophy had made fo little pro- grefs , and when experimental philofophy was totally un ...
... writers of the æra , in which it happened , fo that we might have feen the various reflections upon fuch a phænomenon , in an age when natural philofophy had made fo little pro- grefs , and when experimental philofophy was totally un ...
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... writing . I cannot tell , whether you are acquainted with the man you ought certainly to know him . The probity of his morals , the elegance of his wit , the variety of his works , make him worthy to be taken notice of . He has written ...
... writing . I cannot tell , whether you are acquainted with the man you ought certainly to know him . The probity of his morals , the elegance of his wit , the variety of his works , make him worthy to be taken notice of . He has written ...
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accufation Adieu againſt alfo anfwer appear ARCHIPPUS becauſe Bithynia Campania caufe cauſe CICERO circumftance confequence confuls CORELLIA cuſtom defirous difpofition DOMITIAN emperor encreaſed epiftle eſtabliſhed expreffion FABATUS faid fame favour fays fecond feems fefterces fenate fend fent fentence feven feveral fhall fhews fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fituation flaves fome fometimes foon fpeak fpeech friends friendſhip ftate ftill ftudies fubject fuch fufficient greateſt himſelf honour houſe inftance itſelf judgement Juliopolis JULIUS laft laſt leaft lefs letter MACRINUS manner MAXIMUS mentioned moft moſt muft muſt myſelf neceffary NERVA Nicomedia OBSERVATIONS occafion opinion paffage paffed particular perfons pleaſed pleaſure PLINY the elder PLINY to TRAJAN PLINY's poffible Pontus praiſes prefent proconful province puniſhment purpoſe quod reafon rehearſals reign Roman Rome SABINIANUS ſeems Sinope ſtate SUETONIUS TACITUS thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion TRAJAN to PLINY tranflation uſe VARENUS whofe
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Page 44 - ... flame, and burning stones, came only out of the hole to our left, while the liquid stuff in the other mouth wrought and overflowed, as hath been already described.
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Page 54 - Many payed their adorations to the Gods •, but the greater number were of opinion, that the Gods no longer exifted, and that this night was the final and eternal period of the world. There yrere others, who magnified the real dangers, by imar ginary and falfe terrors.
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Page 9 - Thou too, Cajeta, whose indulgent cares Nursed the great chief, and form'd his tender years, Expiring here (an ever-honour'd name !), Adorn Hesperia with immortal fame : Thy name survives, to please thy pensive ghost ; Thy sacred relics grace the Latian coast. Soon as her funeral rites the prince had paid, And raised a tomb, in honour of the dead ; The sea subsiding, and the tempest o'er, He spreads the flying sails, and leaves the shore.