An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their Excellencies; and Directions how to Study Them to Advantage. With an Essay on the Nature and Use of Those Emphatical and Beautiful Figures which Give Strength and Ornament to WritingC. Rivington, 1737 - 271 ページ |
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