Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850. Various

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By the pounds Milanese, Giacomo means the Milanese lira.

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Jeremy Taylor —Of Christian Prudence. Part II.

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Ib.

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This was well known in ancient times. "Corruptas," says Quintilian, "aliquando et vitiosas orationes, quas tamen plerique judiciorum pravitate mirantur, quam multa impropria, obscura, tumida, humilia, sordida, lasciva, effeminata sunt; quæ non laudantur modo a plerisque, sed quod pejus est, propter hoc ipsum, quod sunt prava laudantur." – Inst. Orat. ii. 5.

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Cinna, Act ii. s. 1.

"Quelle prodigieuse supériorité," says Voltaire in his Commentaries on this passage, "de la belle Poésie sur la prose! Tous les écrivains politiques ont délayé ces pensées, aucun n'a approché de la force, de la profondeur, de la netteté, de la précision de ce discours de Cinna. Tous les corps d'état auraient du assister a cette pièce, pour apprendre à penser et à parler." – Voltaire, Commentaires sur Corneille, iii. 308.

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Corneille, Attila, Act ii. s. 5.

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Julius Cæsar, Act iii. s. 2.

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Virginia, Act i. s. 3.

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Agricola, c. 31, 32.

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Sallust, Bell. Cat.

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Sallust, Bell. Cat.

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Quintilian, lib. iv. 2.

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De Coronâ, Orat. Græc. i. 315, 325.

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Thucydides, ii. § 32, 33.

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Paradise Regained, iv. 268.

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Burke's Works, vol. xvi. pages 415, 416, 417, 418, 420.

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Brougham's Speeches, i. 227, 228.

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Erskine's Speeches, ii. 263.

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Grattan's Speeches, i. 52, 53.

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Bossuet, Oraisons Funèbres.

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Hist. Parl., xxxiii. 406.

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Lord Brougham on the Eloquence of the Ancients. Speeches, iv. 379, 445, 446.