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... confider- able advance before I could even allow them to be so much as women . Ir was mentioned to me the other day , that there is fome probability we may fee you in England by the winter . When I confidered only my private ...
... confider- able advance before I could even allow them to be so much as women . Ir was mentioned to me the other day , that there is fome probability we may fee you in England by the winter . When I confidered only my private ...
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... confiderable perfonages of early times . It is almoft three thousand years ago fince Samfon propofed his famous riddle fo well known ; tho ' the advocates for antient learning must forgive me , if in this article I attribute the ...
... confiderable perfonages of early times . It is almoft three thousand years ago fince Samfon propofed his famous riddle fo well known ; tho ' the advocates for antient learning must forgive me , if in this article I attribute the ...
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... confiderable poem in a dead language . A poet who glows with the genuine fire of a warm and lively imagination , will find the copiousness of his own native English scarce fufficient to convey his ideas in all their strength and energy ...
... confiderable poem in a dead language . A poet who glows with the genuine fire of a warm and lively imagination , will find the copiousness of his own native English scarce fufficient to convey his ideas in all their strength and energy ...
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... confiderable ; as the earliest orator of note among the Romans did not appear fooner than about a century before Tully . THAT great mafter of perfuafion , tak- ing notice of this remarkable circumstance , afsigns it as an evidence of ...
... confiderable ; as the earliest orator of note among the Romans did not appear fooner than about a century before Tully . THAT great mafter of perfuafion , tak- ing notice of this remarkable circumstance , afsigns it as an evidence of ...
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... confiderable advantage over the Greeks and Romans . I am fure at least , of all the writings with which I have been converfant , the works of Mr. Addison will afford the most abundant supply of this kind , in all its variety and ...
... confiderable advantage over the Greeks and Romans . I am fure at least , of all the writings with which I have been converfant , the works of Mr. Addison will afford the most abundant supply of this kind , in all its variety and ...
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