 ... that his enemies dreaded him, as something more than mortal ; and both friends and foes believed him to act always by a peculiar impulse and direction from the gods. His merit however was wholly military, void of every accomplishment of learning,...  Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen - Pagina 194door Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 632 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | English instructor - 1801 - 272 pagina’s
..., void of every accomplishment of learning , which he openly affected to despise ; so that Arpinum had the singular felicity to produce the most glorious...most illustrious improver of the arts and eloquence of Rome. He made no figure , therefore , in the gown , nor had any olher way of sustaining his authority... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1804 - 496 pagina’s
...military, void of every accomplishment of learning, which he openly affected to despise; so thatArpinum had the singular felicity to produce the most glorious...most illustrious improver of the arts and eloquence of Rome. He made no figure therefore in the gown, nor had any other Avay of sustaining his authority... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pagina’s
...military, void of every accomplishment of learning, which he openly affected to despise ; so that Arpinnm had the singular felicity to produce the most glorious...most illustrious improver, of the arts and eloquence of Rome. He made no figure, therefore, in the gown, nor had any other way of sustaining his authority... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pagina’s
...military, void of every accomplishment of learning, which he openly affected to despise ; so that Arpinum n satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures...soon exhausted, and (he mind can only repose on the s of Home*. He made no figure, therefore, in the gown, nor had any other way of sustaining his authority... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1837 - 802 pagina’s
...military, void of every accomplishment of learning, which he openly affected to despise ; s> that Arpinum had the singular felicity to produce the most glorious...most illustrious improver of the arts and eloquence of Rome. He made no figure therefore in the gown, nor had any other way of sustaining his authority... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1839 - 380 pagina’s
...affected to despise ; so that Arpinum had the singular felicity to produce the most glorious eontcmner, as well as the most illustrious improver, of the arts and eloquence of Rome. He made no figure, therefore, in the gown, nor had any other way of sustaining his authority... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pagina’s
...on Marins. " Arpinum," he says, " had the singular felicity to produce the most ylorums contcmner, as well as the most illustrious improver, of the arts...world would at this time have been a forest. He places stranee and discordant ideas in close apposition. Speaking of Sylla, he nays, " He employed himself... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1848 - 884 pagina’s
...military, void of every accomplishment of learning, which he openly affected to despise ; so that Arpiuum had the singular felicity to produce the most glorious...most illustrious improver, of the arts and eloquence of Rome. He made no figure, therefore, in the gown, nor had any other way of sustaining his authority... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 618 pagina’s
...some of his moral and historical reflections, do not please me. Tooke. A scholar, as he was, shonld never have countenanced the sentence of Valerius Maximus...and eloquence." A singular kind of felicity indeed I If this glory had had its followers, the greater part of the world would at this time have been a... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 632 pagina’s
...Marins. " Arpinum," be Шуе, " had the singular felicity to produce the most glorious coiittmner, as well as the most illustrious improver, of the arts...singular kind of felicity indeed ! If this glory had ha<l ite followers, the greater part of the world would at this time have been a forest. He places... | |
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