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Gibbon Edward - The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Iv
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... unless he had copied a real model, could not easily have soared so high above the level of his own conduct or conceptions. But the most solid praise of Basil is drawn from the comparison of a ruined and a flourishing monarchy, that which he wrested from the dissolute Michael, ...
Burke Edmund - Reflections On The Revolution In France
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... great object to improve the system of revenue, to enlarge its collection, to cleanse it of oppression and vexation, and to establish it on the most solid footing. Great were the expectations entertained on that head throughout Europe. It was by this grand arrangement that France was to stand or ...
Emerson Ralph Waldo - Essays (second Series)
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... love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment. If it were possible to live in right relations with men! -- if we could abstain from asking anything of them, from asking ...
Le Bon Gustave - The Psychology Of Revolution
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... the elect increasing day by day. At no period were the elect more necessary, yet never were they supported with such difficulty. One of the most solid foundations of Socialism is an intense hatred of the elect. Its adepts always forget that scientific, artistic, and industrial progress, which creates the ...
Ferguson Adam - An Essay On The History Of Civil Society
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... the foundation on which, without the aid of reflection, the contented and the chearful have rested the gaiety of their tempers. It is perhaps the most solid basis of fortitude which any reJection can lay; and happiness itself is secured, by making a certain species of conduct our amusement; and, ...
Austen Jane - Mansfield Park
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... was preaching. It is different now. The subject is more justly considered. It is felt that distinctness and energy may have weight in recommending the most solid truths; and besides, there is more general observation and taste, a more critical knowledge diffused than formerly; in every congregation there is a ...
Saki (munro Hector Hugh) - Beasts And Super Beasts
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... the same week. It was, perhaps, a desire to out-distance all possible competition that influenced the management of the DAILY INTELLIGENCER, one of the most solid and respected organs of Liberal opinion, in its decision to transfer its offices for three or four weeks from Fleet Street to Eastern ...
Homérosz - The Odysseys
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... can it be compared to any one power to be named in nature, being an entirely well-sorted and digested confluence of all; where the most solid and grave is made as nimble and fluent as the most airy and fiery, the nimble and fluent as firm and well-bounded ...
Gibbon Edward - The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Ii
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... In the military profession, and especially in the conduct of a numerous army, the exclusive use of animal food appears to be productive of the most solid advantages. Corn is a bulky and perishable commodity; and the large magazines, which are indispensably necessary for the subsistence of our troops, must ...
Gibbon Edward - The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, V
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... every age, the foundation and ruin of the Assyrian cities has been easy and rapid: the country is destitute of stone and timber; and the most solid structures ^27 are composed of bricks baked in the sun, and joined by a cement of the native bitumen. The name of Cufa ^ ...
Stevenson Robert Louis - Memoir Of Fleeming Jenkin
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... Leet are regularly held by the Lady of the Manor, Mrs. Henrietta Camilla Jenkin'; and indeed the pleasure of so describing his wife, was the most solid benefit of the investment; for the purchase was heavily encumbered and paid them nothing till some years before their death. In the meanwhile, ...

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