The Works of Samuel Parr, Ll.D. ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence,Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green., 1828 |
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... called " Virtutis veræ Custos , " according to the sense in which Horace originally wrote the expression about himself ; and to the vague application of it , either to the judicial or the political character of Lord M. he might op- pose ...
... called " Virtutis veræ Custos , " according to the sense in which Horace originally wrote the expression about himself ; and to the vague application of it , either to the judicial or the political character of Lord M. he might op- pose ...
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... called " ob multipli- cem et exquisitam eruditionem spectatissimus . " This we think a very unauthorized use of the word spectatus . It answers ( as Dr. C. may learn from the dictionary of Forcellinus ) to cogni- tus , exploratus ...
... called " ob multipli- cem et exquisitam eruditionem spectatissimus . " This we think a very unauthorized use of the word spectatus . It answers ( as Dr. C. may learn from the dictionary of Forcellinus ) to cogni- tus , exploratus ...
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... called Specta- tus , for his moral qualities displayed in practice , for his skill in the exercise of arts , or his probity and judgment in the con- duct of business , as brought to the test of experience . But for the mere acquisition ...
... called Specta- tus , for his moral qualities displayed in practice , for his skill in the exercise of arts , or his probity and judgment in the con- duct of business , as brought to the test of experience . But for the mere acquisition ...
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... called Q. Horatii Flacci Vita per annos digesta . Dr. C. does not explain whence he took it , but we imagine that it was from Janus . We could wish that Dr. C. had favoured us with what Johannes Masson has written on the chrono- logy of ...
... called Q. Horatii Flacci Vita per annos digesta . Dr. C. does not explain whence he took it , but we imagine that it was from Janus . We could wish that Dr. C. had favoured us with what Johannes Masson has written on the chrono- logy of ...
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... called the " Scrip- ture Vindicated . " Ibid . v . 5 . palmaque nobilis Terrarum dominos evehit ad deos . Here again the joint editor of the Odes , with be- coming accuracy and perspicuity , informs his readers that Bishop Hare accedes ...
... called the " Scrip- ture Vindicated . " Ibid . v . 5 . palmaque nobilis Terrarum dominos evehit ad deos . Here again the joint editor of the Odes , with be- coming accuracy and perspicuity , informs his readers that Bishop Hare accedes ...
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Page 492 - And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord's people ; between the king also and the people.
Page 586 - Other forms of government are liable to it as well as that; for wherever the power that is put in any hands for the government of the people and the preservation of their properties is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the arbitrary and irregular commands of those that have it, there it presently becomes tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.