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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.

[Bolingbroke] was of that sect which, to avoid a more odious name, chose to distinguish itself by that of naturalism.

Sallust’s expression would be shorter and more compact; Cicero’s more gracious and pleasing.

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.