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... excellent, &c. is rather loose and awkward ; better, to recommend that very excellent, &c. and when he mentions setting aside a particular day in the calendar, one would imagine, that selling apart would have been more proper, as to set ...
... excellent, &c. is rather loose and awkward ; better, to recommend that very excellent, &c. and when he mentions setting aside a particular day in the calendar, one would imagine, that selling apart would have been more proper, as to set ...
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... excellent ; as it must needs be, if what hath been laid down be allowed, that the end of man's creation was to praise and glorify God ; for that cannot but be the most noble and excellent act of any being which Dest answers the end and ...
... excellent ; as it must needs be, if what hath been laid down be allowed, that the end of man's creation was to praise and glorify God ; for that cannot but be the most noble and excellent act of any being which Dest answers the end and ...
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... excellent prince, who fell a sacrifice to the rage of his rebellious subjects; and, by his fall, derived infamy, misery, and guilt on them, and their sinful posterity.' Bossuet, Flechier, and the other celebrated French preachers, very ...
... excellent prince, who fell a sacrifice to the rage of his rebellious subjects; and, by his fall, derived infamy, misery, and guilt on them, and their sinful posterity.' Bossuet, Flechier, and the other celebrated French preachers, very ...
Contents
LECTURE PAS | 10 |
CriticismGeniusPleasures of TasteSublimit in Objects | 27 |
Rise and Progress of Language and of Writing | 68 |
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