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" I am persuaded the mentioning of him in your immortal works will greatly contribute to eternize his name. Happy I esteem those to be, whom Providence has distinguished with the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or... "
The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science - Page 317
by Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818
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Rome, as it was Under Paganism, and as it Became Under the Popes

John Miley - 1843 - 382 pages
...the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are they who are blessed with both those uncommon talents : in the number of which my uncle, as his own writings and your history will...
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Notes of a Travel: Being a Journal of a Tour in Europe

John P. Hiester - 1845 - 298 pages
...the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are...ranked. It is with extreme willingness, therefore, I execute your commands, and should indeed have claimed the task, if you had not enjoined it. He was...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are...ranked. It is with extreme willingness, therefore, I execute your commands, and should indeed have claimed the task if you had not enjoined it. He was...
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Letters on various subjects. [With a portrait.], Volume 5

James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...the abilities of either doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are...history will evidently prove, may justly be ranked. ******** He was at that time with the fleet, under his command, at Misenum. On the 23rd of August,...
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Fragments of History: Narratives of Some of the Most Remarkable Events in ...

Henry Peter Dunster - 1850 - 372 pages
...the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are...ranked. It is with extreme willingness, therefore, I execute your commands, and should, indeed, have claimed the task, if you had not enjoined it. " He...
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Ruins of Sacred and Historic Lands

1850 - 418 pages
...the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are...ranked. It is with extreme willingness, therefore, I execute your commands ; and should indeed have claimed the task, if you had not enjoined it. He was...
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The natural history of pigeons

William Jardine, P. J. Selby - 1850 - 370 pages
...abilities either of performing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read. But doubly happy are they who are blest with both these uncommon endowments ; in the number of whom my uncle, as his own writings and...
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Ruins of sacred and historic lands. Babylon, Nineveh &c

Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are...ranked. It is with extreme willingness, therefore, I execute your commands ; and should indeed have claimed the task, if you had not enjoined it. He was...
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Europa; or, Notes of a recent ramble through England, France, Italy and ...

Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1852 - 538 pages
...the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are...ranked. It is with extreme willingness, therefore, I execute your commands, and should, indeed, have claimed the task if you had not enjoined it. He was,...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...the abilities either of doing such actions as are worthy of being related, or of relating them in a manner worthy of being read ; but doubly happy are...ranked. It is with extreme willingness, therefore, I execute your commands, and should indeed have claimed the task if you had not enjoined it. He was...
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