Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... written was considered by his contemporaries as singularly polished and perfect . The following are favourable speci- mens of the composition of his once celebrated Arcadia , which has undergone fourteen editions , and has prefixed to ...
... written was considered by his contemporaries as singularly polished and perfect . The following are favourable speci- mens of the composition of his once celebrated Arcadia , which has undergone fourteen editions , and has prefixed to ...
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... passage from his admirable books on the Advancement of Learning , where nume- • Remarks on the Life and Writings of Swift , p . 234 , edit . 1752 . rous pages equally well written occur , will , I 18 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... passage from his admirable books on the Advancement of Learning , where nume- • Remarks on the Life and Writings of Swift , p . 234 , edit . 1752 . rous pages equally well written occur , will , I 18 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... written occur , will , I have no doubt , confirm the assertion : " It is an assured truth , and a conclusion of ex- perience , that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the minde of man to atheisme ; but a farther ...
... written occur , will , I have no doubt , confirm the assertion : " It is an assured truth , and a conclusion of ex- perience , that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the minde of man to atheisme ; but a farther ...
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... writing an exact man . And therefore , if a man write little , hee had need have a great memory ; if he conferre little , hee had need have a present wit ; and if he reade little , he had need have much cunning , to seeme to know that ...
... writing an exact man . And therefore , if a man write little , hee had need have a great memory ; if he conferre little , hee had need have a present wit ; and if he reade little , he had need have much cunning , to seeme to know that ...
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... written in 1635 , and published in 1642 , and afterwards still more conspicuously in his Pseudodoxia Epide- mica , or Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors . In these productions , which in point of information possess no small degree ...
... written in 1635 , and published in 1642 , and afterwards still more conspicuously in his Pseudodoxia Epide- mica , or Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors . In these productions , which in point of information possess no small degree ...
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