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Page vi
... seems to have retired , partially or wholly , from public employment , and to have devoted his leisure , at the request of his friends , to the composition of his Institutiones Oratoria , a work which he was the rather induced to under ...
... seems to have retired , partially or wholly , from public employment , and to have devoted his leisure , at the request of his friends , to the composition of his Institutiones Oratoria , a work which he was the rather induced to under ...
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... seems to have thought , indeed , that a pleader might do all manner of evil if he could but persuade himself that good would come of it . His flattery of Domitian ¶ is gross ; he calls him the most upright of moral censors , a master in ...
... seems to have thought , indeed , that a pleader might do all manner of evil if he could but persuade himself that good would come of it . His flattery of Domitian ¶ is gross ; he calls him the most upright of moral censors , a master in ...
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... seems to have been but a young man when he brought out this edition . He professed to have collated three manuscripts , two at Oxford and one at Cam- bridge , but both Burmann and Spalding accuse him of not having made his collations ...
... seems to have been but a young man when he brought out this edition . He professed to have collated three manuscripts , two at Oxford and one at Cam- bridge , but both Burmann and Spalding accuse him of not having made his collations ...
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... seems proud of the petty erudition which he has so industriously accumulated . Burmann thought himself insulted in the preface , and took ample revenge in a pamphlet addressed Ad Claudium Cappe- ronnerium , Theologum Licentiatum ...
... seems proud of the petty erudition which he has so industriously accumulated . Burmann thought himself insulted in the preface , and took ample revenge in a pamphlet addressed Ad Claudium Cappe- ronnerium , Theologum Licentiatum ...
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... seems to have been extremely anxious to express the sense of his author , and is said to have spent ten years over ... seem to do him injustice , I will give a few specimens . In the fourteenth chapter of the fifth book Quintilian says ...
... seems to have been extremely anxious to express the sense of his author , and is said to have spent ten years over ... seem to do him injustice , I will give a few specimens . In the fourteenth chapter of the fifth book Quintilian says ...
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