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... because I perceive many matters use a contrary method . " Dial . iv . VER . 13. Mint ] A place to which infolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal prote & ion , which they were there fuffered to afford to one another , from the ...
... because I perceive many matters use a contrary method . " Dial . iv . VER . 13. Mint ] A place to which infolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal prote & ion , which they were there fuffered to afford to one another , from the ...
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... because its leaves afforded nourishment to caterpillars , or because spiders may weave cobwebs among the branches . " The metaphor in our Author is moft happily carried on through a variety of correfponding particulars that exadly hit ...
... because its leaves afforded nourishment to caterpillars , or because spiders may weave cobwebs among the branches . " The metaphor in our Author is moft happily carried on through a variety of correfponding particulars that exadly hit ...
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... because at times he published them together ; and no proof that he was never a Stoic or Old Academic , because at times he was an Epicurean . Nunc agilis fio , et merfor civilibus undis , Virtutis veræ cuftos , rigidusque fatelles ...
... because at times he published them together ; and no proof that he was never a Stoic or Old Academic , because at times he was an Epicurean . Nunc agilis fio , et merfor civilibus undis , Virtutis veræ cuftos , rigidusque fatelles ...
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... because our manners , as well as our dreffes , have been fo much altered and changed within a few years . His Fables the most popular of all his works , have the fault of many modern fable - writers , the afcribing , to the different ...
... because our manners , as well as our dreffes , have been fo much altered and changed within a few years . His Fables the most popular of all his works , have the fault of many modern fable - writers , the afcribing , to the different ...
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... because admiration is turned into affection . In the very entertaining Memoirs of the Life of Racine ( published by his fon ( we find no paffage more amusing and interefting , than where that great Poet fends an excufe to Monfieur , the ...
... because admiration is turned into affection . In the very entertaining Memoirs of the Life of Racine ( published by his fon ( we find no paffage more amusing and interefting , than where that great Poet fends an excufe to Monfieur , the ...
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