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The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography;: Embracing a History of ... - Page 123
by Royal Robbins - 1833
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 1

Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...lenity ; the greatest vigor in commanding with the most perfect affability of deportment ; the highest capacity and inclination for science with the most shining talents for action. His civil and his military virtues are almost equally the objects of our admiration ; excepting only,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...greatest lenity : the greatest rigour in command, with the greatest affability of deportment; the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents . for action. Nature, also, as if desirous that so bright a producton of her skill should be set in the fairest light,...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 540 pages
...lenity; the greatest vigour in commanding with the most perfect affability of deportment ; c the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action. His civil and military virtues are almost equally the objects of our admiration; excepting only, that...
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The Arts and Sciences Abridged: With a Selection of Pieces, from Celebrated ...

Charles Peirce - Textbooks - 1811 - 266 pages
...greatest lenity ; the greatest rigour in command, with the greatest affability of deportment ; the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action. Nature also, as if desirous that so bright a production of her skill should be set in tke fairest light,...
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The Flowers of Modern History: Comprehending on a New Plan, the Most ...

John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...greatest lenity ; the greatest vigor in command, with the greatest affability of deportment ; the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action. His civil and his military virtues are almost equally the objects of our admiration ; excepting only,...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...greatest lenity ; the most vigorous command with the greatest affability of deportment ; the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action. His civil and military virtues are almost equally the objects of our admiration ; excepting, only,...
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The Christian Disciple, Volume 4

Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 408 pages
...lenity; the greatest vigor in commanding with the most perfect affability of deportment; the highest capacity and inclination for science with the most shining talents for action. Nature also dad bestowed on him evcry bodily accomplishment, vigor of limbs, dignity of shape and air,...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...lenity; the most vigorous command, ». •with the greatest affability of deportment j the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action. The civii and miliiary virtues are aJmost equally the objects of our admiraiton, excepting only that...
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The Juvenile Tourist ; Or, Excursions Into the West of England: Into the ...

John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...the other from exceeding its proper boundaries. He reconciled the severest justice with the gentlest lenity, the brightest capacity and inclination for...science, with the most shining talents for action. His civil and his military virtues are almost equally the object of our admiration, excepting only...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1818 - 400 pages
...greatest lenity; the freatcst rigour in command, with the greatest affaility of deportment ; the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action. Nature also, as if desirous that so bright a production of her skill should be set in the fairest light,...
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