S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. Bishop Richard Hurd
Some of these masques were moral dramas, where the virtues and vices were impersonated.Bishop Richard Hurd.
1 [Bolingbroke] was of that sect which, to avoid a more odious name, chose to distinguish itself by that of naturalism.Bishop Richard Hurd.
2 Sallust’s expression would be shorter and more compact; Cicero’s more gracious and pleasing.Bishop Richard Hurd.
3 In a word, [let him calculate] how full, and complete, and contagious his vices have been, and how faint, and partial, and ineffective his best virtues.Bishop Richard Hurd.
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