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... purpose , but to fend fuccors to their allies , and to fecure the towns that were in their poffeffion , until the vigor of the enemy ex- pired of itself , like a flame for want of fuel . He could not however , prevail upon Flaminius ...
... purpose , but to fend fuccors to their allies , and to fecure the towns that were in their poffeffion , until the vigor of the enemy ex- pired of itself , like a flame for want of fuel . He could not however , prevail upon Flaminius ...
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... purposes of the mind , and courage is tempered with prudence . " Pursuant to these resolutions , Fabius was chofen dicta- tor , and he appointed Lucius Minucius his general of the horfe . But first he defired permiffion of the fenate to ...
... purposes of the mind , and courage is tempered with prudence . " Pursuant to these resolutions , Fabius was chofen dicta- tor , and he appointed Lucius Minucius his general of the horfe . But first he defired permiffion of the fenate to ...
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... purpose that his men might more " clearly behold Italy laid wafte with fire and fword . " And . he asked the friends of Fabius , " Whether he intended to " take his army up into heaven , as he had bid adieu to " the world below , or ...
... purpose that his men might more " clearly behold Italy laid wafte with fire and fword . " And . he asked the friends of Fabius , " Whether he intended to " take his army up into heaven , as he had bid adieu to " the world below , or ...
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... purpose in a man's own houfe , and no more for the city in general . And as the feaft of Ceres fall within that time , it was thought better entirely to omit the folemnity , than by the fmall numbers and the melancholy looks of those ...
... purpose in a man's own houfe , and no more for the city in general . And as the feaft of Ceres fall within that time , it was thought better entirely to omit the folemnity , than by the fmall numbers and the melancholy looks of those ...
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Plutarch. Matterers , who exhaufted all the art of pleafure for that purpose , yet the philofopher took care to hunt out his fu- gitive , who feared and refpected none but him ; the rest he held in great contempt . Hence that faying of ...
Plutarch. Matterers , who exhaufted all the art of pleafure for that purpose , yet the philofopher took care to hunt out his fu- gitive , who feared and refpected none but him ; the rest he held in great contempt . Hence that faying of ...
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