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Page 38
... French and all antiquity had advanced to the other , both being equally remote from nature : regular formality is the opposite point to fantastic sharawadgis . The French , indeed , during the fash- ionable paroxysm of philosophy , have ...
... French and all antiquity had advanced to the other , both being equally remote from nature : regular formality is the opposite point to fantastic sharawadgis . The French , indeed , during the fash- ionable paroxysm of philosophy , have ...
Page 78
... French title - pages ; English and French text on opposite pages , the English in italic . [ A3 ] is incorrectly marked A + , and [ E4 ] , E3 . There are two supplementary facts which give this edition added interest . The paper ( which ...
... French title - pages ; English and French text on opposite pages , the English in italic . [ A3 ] is incorrectly marked A + , and [ E4 ] , E3 . There are two supplementary facts which give this edition added interest . The paper ( which ...
Page 79
... French version is filled with errors which a French type - setter would hardly make , the English is comparatively ac- curate . The inference is that this is a pirated ed- ition probably made in England . Walpole com- plained of Samuel ...
... French version is filled with errors which a French type - setter would hardly make , the English is comparatively ac- curate . The inference is that this is a pirated ed- ition probably made in England . Walpole com- plained of Samuel ...
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