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A New Universal Biography, Containing Interesting Accounts - Page 138
by John Platts - 1825
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - Biography - 1799 - 582 pages
...affairs, and determined private causes, with a patience and discretion above his years. The driness of business was relieved by the charms of literature...tall, active, and robust, surpassed most of his equals iu the gymnastic arts. Refreshed by the use of the bath and a slight dinner, he resumed, with new vigour,...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...mderstanding, and gave him the noblest ideas if man and government. The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind; and Alexander, who was tall, active, and robust, surpa$sed most of his equals in the gymnastic arts. Refreshed by the use of the bath and a slight dinner,...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...understanding, and gave him the noblest ideas of man and of government. The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind ; and Alexander, who was tall, active...equals in the gymnastic arts. Refreshed by the use of his bath, and a slight dinner, he resumed, with new vigor, the business of the day : And till the •hour...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...and gave him the noblest . • ideas of man and government. The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind; and Alexander, who was tall, active, and robust, surpassed most of l"s equals in the gymnastic arts.< Refreshed by the use of the bath and a slight dinner, he resumed,...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...understanding, and gave him the noblest ideas of man and of government. The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind ; and Alexander, who was tall, active and robust, surpassed most of his equals in the gymp.astic arts. Refreshed by the use of his bath, and a slight dinner, he resumed, with new vigor,...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...understanding, and cave him the noblest ideas of man and of government. The exercises if the body succeeded to those of the mind ; and Alexander, who was tall, active...equals in the gymnastic arts. Refreshed by the use of his' bath, and a slight dinner, he resumed, with new vigour, the business of the day ; and till the...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...gymnastic arts. Refreshed by the use of his bath, and a slight dinner, he resumed, with new vigor, the business of the day : And till the hour of supper,...the Romans, he was attended by his secretaries, with \vhom he read and answered the multitude of letters, memorials, and petitions, that must have been...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...body succeeded to those of the mind ; and ixander, who >v«s tall, active and robust, surpassed must of his equals in the gymnastic arts. Refreshed by the use of his bath, arid a slight dinner, he resumed, with new vigor, the business of the day: And till the hour...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...understanding, and gave him the noblest ideas of man and of government. The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind ; and Alexander, who was tall, active,...equals in the gymnastic arts. Refreshed by the use of his bath, and a slight dinner, he resumed, with new vigour, the business of the day ; and till the...
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The Journal of Health, Volume 4

Hygiene - 1832 - 402 pages
...gave him the noblest ideas in relation to man and to govemment. The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind: and Alexander, who was tall, active...robust, surpassed most of his equals in the gymnastic practices of that period. Refreshed by the use of the bath and a slight repast, he resumed with new...
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