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Thomas Leland : All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En
Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
Thomas Leland : History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, The
'[letter from Johnson to Charles O' Connor] Dr. Leland begins his history too late: the ages which deserve an exact enquiry are those times (for such there were) when Ireland was the school of the west, the quiet habitation of sanctity and literature.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Thomas Leland : The History of the Life and Reign of Philip, King of Macedon
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1765:] 'What an agreeable fellow was that Philip of Macedon! We are reading his history; but the wise and elegant Athenians put me out of all patience, they are so like moderns: and all the Greeks of that time, some three or four excepted, appear such arrant scoundrels, that Philip, who was a clever scoundrel and made fools of them all, appears to great advantage.'
