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... death more than any thing besides . For my own part , I do not think that I ever was so much afraid as I was at that time , considering their great contempt , and how unwilling they were to listen to right reason or loyalty . And ...
... death more than any thing besides . For my own part , I do not think that I ever was so much afraid as I was at that time , considering their great contempt , and how unwilling they were to listen to right reason or loyalty . And ...
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With Short Biographical and Critical Notices Charles Knight. 150. - DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER . PLINY THE YOUNGER . [ CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS , commonly called Pliny the Elder , is supposed to have been born A D. 23. The manner of his death ...
With Short Biographical and Critical Notices Charles Knight. 150. - DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER . PLINY THE YOUNGER . [ CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS , commonly called Pliny the Elder , is supposed to have been born A D. 23. The manner of his death ...
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... death , our life is a sad composition ; we live with death , and die not in a moment . How many pulses made up the life of Methuselah were work for Archimedes : common counters sum up the life of Moses his man . Our days become ...
... death , our life is a sad composition ; we live with death , and die not in a moment . How many pulses made up the life of Methuselah were work for Archimedes : common counters sum up the life of Moses his man . Our days become ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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