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... Hiftory of John Bull , the best parts of the Memoirs of Scriblerus , the Art of Political Lying , the Freeholder's Catechism , It cannot rain but it pours , & c , abound in strokes of the moft exquifite humour . It is known that he gave ...
... Hiftory of John Bull , the best parts of the Memoirs of Scriblerus , the Art of Political Lying , the Freeholder's Catechism , It cannot rain but it pours , & c , abound in strokes of the moft exquifite humour . It is known that he gave ...
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... Hiftory . P. Ibid . Burnets , Oldmixons , and Cooks . ] By no means Authors of the fame clafs ; though the violence of party might hurry them into the lame mistakes . But if the firft offended this way , it was only through an honeft ...
... Hiftory . P. Ibid . Burnets , Oldmixons , and Cooks . ] By no means Authors of the fame clafs ; though the violence of party might hurry them into the lame mistakes . But if the firft offended this way , it was only through an honeft ...
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... hiftory of his country , added a moft exquifite tafle in literature , I mean Sir William Blackftone ; who thus concludes this vindication : Nothing furely could juftify fo deep a refentment , unless the ftory be true of the commerce ...
... hiftory of his country , added a moft exquifite tafle in literature , I mean Sir William Blackftone ; who thus concludes this vindication : Nothing furely could juftify fo deep a refentment , unless the ftory be true of the commerce ...
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... hiftory , his unexampled and unremitted diligence in literary purfuits , who added credit to this very hiftory , as Scipio and Lælius did to that of Polybius , by revifing and correcting ; and brightening it , as he expreffes it , by ...
... hiftory , his unexampled and unremitted diligence in literary purfuits , who added credit to this very hiftory , as Scipio and Lælius did to that of Polybius , by revifing and correcting ; and brightening it , as he expreffes it , by ...
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Alexander Pope. And jufly CESAR fcorns the Poet's lays , It is to Hiftory he trufts for Praife . 35 F. Better be Cibber ,. I'll maintain it ftill , Than ridicule all Tafte , blafpheme Quadrille , Abuse the City's beft good men in metre ...
Alexander Pope. And jufly CESAR fcorns the Poet's lays , It is to Hiftory he trufts for Praife . 35 F. Better be Cibber ,. I'll maintain it ftill , Than ridicule all Tafte , blafpheme Quadrille , Abuse the City's beft good men in metre ...
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