The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... natural time , but that his excel- lences are balanced by his failings . He that by intellectual exaltation thus towers above his contem- poraries , is drunken , or lazy , or capricious ; or , by some defect or other , is hindered from ...
... natural time , but that his excel- lences are balanced by his failings . He that by intellectual exaltation thus towers above his contem- poraries , is drunken , or lazy , or capricious ; or , by some defect or other , is hindered from ...
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... naturally apt to be a little partial . When you say that 1 John v . 7 is found in this famous manuscript without the smallest impeachment of its authenticity , what do you mean by the smallest impeachment ? Would you have the writer of ...
... naturally apt to be a little partial . When you say that 1 John v . 7 is found in this famous manuscript without the smallest impeachment of its authenticity , what do you mean by the smallest impeachment ? Would you have the writer of ...
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... natural simplicity and plainness ; though I cannot deny that , from his constant preference of common words , he sometimes descends too much towards the humble and ordinary style . Sophocles , on the contrary , while he is anxious to ...
... natural simplicity and plainness ; though I cannot deny that , from his constant preference of common words , he sometimes descends too much towards the humble and ordinary style . Sophocles , on the contrary , while he is anxious to ...
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... natural grace and unaffected simplicity of Euripides than from the studied dignity and artificial accuracy of Sophocles . Sophocles , per- haps , has written better tragedies , but Euripides more pleasing poems . We approve Sophocles ...
... natural grace and unaffected simplicity of Euripides than from the studied dignity and artificial accuracy of Sophocles . Sophocles , per- haps , has written better tragedies , but Euripides more pleasing poems . We approve Sophocles ...
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... naturally be asked , Who shall decide which reading is indubitably certain ? This decision must be in a great measure left to the discretion of the editor . " What are we to give to every man , who sets up for a critic , an unlimited ...
... naturally be asked , Who shall decide which reading is indubitably certain ? This decision must be in a great measure left to the discretion of the editor . " What are we to give to every man , who sets up for a critic , an unlimited ...
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