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Herodotus. fuccefs continually encreased , he was induced to write and fend this letter to Samos . " AMASIS to POLYCRATES . THE fuccefs of a friend and an ally fills me " with particular fatisfaction ; but as I know the " invidioufnefs ...
Herodotus. fuccefs continually encreased , he was induced to write and fend this letter to Samos . " AMASIS to POLYCRATES . THE fuccefs of a friend and an ally fills me " with particular fatisfaction ; but as I know the " invidioufnefs ...
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... letter , and feriouf- Virtute me involvo , probamque Pauperiem fine dote quæro . ly It would be inexcufable not to infert Dryden's verfion , or ra ther paraphrafe , of the above paffage . Fortune , that with malicious joy Does man her ...
... letter , and feriouf- Virtute me involvo , probamque Pauperiem fine dote quæro . ly It would be inexcufable not to infert Dryden's verfion , or ra ther paraphrafe , of the above paffage . Fortune , that with malicious joy Does man her ...
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... living bird ; and Ælian speaks of an artift , who wrote a diftich in letters of gold , which he inclosed in the rind of a grain of corn . Other inftances of a fimilar kind are emerald fet in gold , and the workmanship of Theo- 50 THALIA .
... living bird ; and Ælian speaks of an artift , who wrote a diftich in letters of gold , which he inclosed in the rind of a grain of corn . Other inftances of a fimilar kind are emerald fet in gold , and the workmanship of Theo- 50 THALIA .
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... letter of his friend , was convinced that it was impoffible for one mortal to deliver another from the deftiny which awaited him ; he was fatisfied that Polycrates could not terminate his days in tranquillity , whofe good fortune had ...
... letter of his friend , was convinced that it was impoffible for one mortal to deliver another from the deftiny which awaited him ; he was fatisfied that Polycrates could not terminate his days in tranquillity , whofe good fortune had ...
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... . It was once a place of great power , and the largest city in the island ; for a defcription of its prefent condi- tion , fee Savary's Letters on Greece . - T , ч E 3 до no further . Others , on the contrary , affirm THALI A. 53.
... . It was once a place of great power , and the largest city in the island ; for a defcription of its prefent condi- tion , fee Savary's Letters on Greece . - T , ч E 3 до no further . Others , on the contrary , affirm THALI A. 53.
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Page 5 - ... a rib Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, More to the part sinister, from me drawn ; Well if thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
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Page 99 - ... any inclination of their own, and to which they are resolved to adhere. As, however, it is necessary at last to come to some resolution, the major part of them are determined by reasons which they would blush to pay any regard to on much less serious occasions.