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... manners , with- out any shadow of worth in himself , was willing to get a support in the valour of Ode- nathus , and therefore he made him his part- ner in empire by the title of Augustus , and 16 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS 17 2. OF LONGINUS .
... manners , with- out any shadow of worth in himself , was willing to get a support in the valour of Ode- nathus , and therefore he made him his part- ner in empire by the title of Augustus , and 16 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS 17 2. OF LONGINUS .
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... manner , the simplicity , sweetness , and harmony of his style . With Demosthenes he is vehement , abrupt , and disorderly regular ; he dazzles with his lightning , and terrifies with his thun- der . When he parallels the Greek with the ...
... manner , the simplicity , sweetness , and harmony of his style . With Demosthenes he is vehement , abrupt , and disorderly regular ; he dazzles with his lightning , and terrifies with his thun- der . When he parallels the Greek with the ...
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... manner of his quoting that celebrated passage from him , is as ho- nourable to the critic , as the quotation itself to the Jewish legislator . Whether he believed the Mosaic history of the creation , is a point in which we are not in ...
... manner of his quoting that celebrated passage from him , is as ho- nourable to the critic , as the quotation itself to the Jewish legislator . Whether he believed the Mosaic history of the creation , is a point in which we are not in ...
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... manner of the performances of men , we must know the dignity of human nature , the reach of the human understand- ing , the ends for which we were created , and the means of their attainment . In these spe- culations Longinus will make ...
... manner of the performances of men , we must know the dignity of human nature , the reach of the human understand- ing , the ends for which we were created , and the means of their attainment . In these spe- culations Longinus will make ...
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... manner he accounts for that turn in the mind , which biasses us to admire more what is great and uncommon , than what is ordinary and familiar , however useful . There are other masterly rections of this kind in the 33d and 34th ...
... manner he accounts for that turn in the mind , which biasses us to admire more what is great and uncommon , than what is ordinary and familiar , however useful . There are other masterly rections of this kind in the 33d and 34th ...
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