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The Mechanic's Text-book and Engineer's Practical Guide ... - Page 208
1855 - 403 pages
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English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834

Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - English literature - 1901 - 432 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients; of...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. But all men may not dare promise themselves a sufficiency of self-control for the imitation of those...
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Universal Classics Library, Volume 8

Literature - 1901 - 440 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients ;...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. But all men may not dare promise themselves a sufficiency of self-control for the imitation of those...
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English Belles-lettres from A.D. 907 to 1834 ...

English literature - 1901 - 436 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients; of...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. But all men may not dare promise themselves a sufficiency of self-control for the imitation of those...
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Books and Reading

Books and reading - 1908 - 408 pages
...and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients; of Sir Thomas Moore, Bacon, Baxter, or to refer at once to later and contemporary...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. — Biographla Literaria. OH, MY YOUNG ASPIRANT ANTHONY TROLLOPE THERE is perhaps no career or life...
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Life and Labour, Or, Characteristics of Men of Industry, Culture and Genius

Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1910 - 502 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients ;...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. ... Be not merely a man of letters ! Let literature be an honourable augmentation to your arms, but...
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Character. Repr

Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 468 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon, among the ancients —...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question." — Biegraphia Lileraria, chap. xi. they at once offered to escort him in safety wherever he chose....
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Coleridge, Biographia Literaria: Chapters I-IV, XIV-XXII. Wordsworth ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancienvs; of Sir Thomas More, Bacon, Baxter, or to refer at...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. CHAP. XII. A Chapter of requests and •premonitions concerning the .perusal or omission of the chapter...
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Coleridge Biographia Literaria

376 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients; of...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. CHAP. XII. A Chapter of requests and premonitions concerning the perusal or omission of the chapter...
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