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James Bruce. BIB Schy NDON : and Co. , 13 , Poland Street . PREFACE . I BELIEVE that there are not many persons.
James Bruce. BIB Schy NDON : and Co. , 13 , Poland Street . PREFACE . I BELIEVE that there are not many persons.
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James Bruce. PREFACE . I BELIEVE that there are not many persons who read biography with interest , who have not felt a desire for a more intimate personal ac- quaintance , as it may be called , than is usually afforded them with those ...
James Bruce. PREFACE . I BELIEVE that there are not many persons who read biography with interest , who have not felt a desire for a more intimate personal ac- quaintance , as it may be called , than is usually afforded them with those ...
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... believe , in spite of learned reprehension , read with more pleasure than the more pretending volumes in which this disagreeable " dignity of history " is stiffly and proudly sustained . When the Roman historian deprecates the censure ...
... believe , in spite of learned reprehension , read with more pleasure than the more pretending volumes in which this disagreeable " dignity of history " is stiffly and proudly sustained . When the Roman historian deprecates the censure ...
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... believe is the true explanation of the epithet which Plato has joined to the name of Sappho and which others after him have allowed her , when he tells us that Socrates called Sappho " beautiful " on account of her poetry . * The same ...
... believe is the true explanation of the epithet which Plato has joined to the name of Sappho and which others after him have allowed her , when he tells us that Socrates called Sappho " beautiful " on account of her poetry . * The same ...
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... appears , from a remark in his " Athens and the Athenians , " in reference to Welcker's work , to be one of those * " Etudes sur l'Antiquité , " p . 282 . charitable persons who believe in her purity . Sappho , 12 PORTRAITS .
... appears , from a remark in his " Athens and the Athenians , " in reference to Welcker's work , to be one of those * " Etudes sur l'Antiquité , " p . 282 . charitable persons who believe in her purity . Sappho , 12 PORTRAITS .
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