As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution. The Spectator. ... - Page 1491789Full view - About this book
| SIR PHILIP SIDNEY TO MACAULAY - 1910 - 474 pages
...nation, from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius, before they are put in execution. Sir Cloudesly Shovel's monument has very often given me great offence: instead of the brave rough English... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation, from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation, from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation, from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted... | |
| Alma Blount - American literature - 1914 - 406 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation, from the turn of then" public monuments and incriptions, they should be submitted... | |
| William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honour to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of [90 their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be... | |
| John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honour to the living as well as to march begins in military state, 205 And nations on his eye suspended wait; S politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted... | |
| English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honour to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness5 of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted... | |
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