The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 |
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Pagina vi
... thing that their ambition can aspire to , a great genius has seldom either room or invitation to stretch itself to its full size . You see , my Lord , how much I trust to your good nature , as well as good sense , when , in an epistle ...
... thing that their ambition can aspire to , a great genius has seldom either room or invitation to stretch itself to its full size . You see , my Lord , how much I trust to your good nature , as well as good sense , when , in an epistle ...
Pagina xv
... thing that is good in it . But there is one great fault , which is commonly observed in the writers of particular lives ; that they are apt to be partial and prejudiced in favor of their subject , and to give us a panegyric instead of a ...
... thing that is good in it . But there is one great fault , which is commonly observed in the writers of particular lives ; that they are apt to be partial and prejudiced in favor of their subject , and to give us a panegyric instead of a ...
Pagina xvii
... thing that contradicts the common opinion , and shocks the prejudices of the reader , I must desire him to attend diligently to the authorities on which it is grounded ; and if these do not give satisfaction , to suspend his judgment ...
... thing that contradicts the common opinion , and shocks the prejudices of the reader , I must desire him to attend diligently to the authorities on which it is grounded ; and if these do not give satisfaction , to suspend his judgment ...
Pagina xviii
... things or persons , or of any other favor to the particu- lar character of Cicero , than what common humanity will ... thing of moment transacted in the state , in which he did not bear an eminent part : so that , to make the whole ...
... things or persons , or of any other favor to the particu- lar character of Cicero , than what common humanity will ... thing of moment transacted in the state , in which he did not bear an eminent part : so that , to make the whole ...
Pagina xix
... things : that , in the councils , he should interpose his own judgment on the merit of them ; in the acts , relate not only what was done , but how it was done ; in the events , shew what share chance , or rashness , or prudence had in ...
... things : that , in the councils , he should interpose his own judgment on the merit of them ; in the acts , relate not only what was done , but how it was done ; in the events , shew what share chance , or rashness , or prudence had in ...
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