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... himself to be but half an architect , there is great room for improvement against a future occafion , Skill is acquired by experience , Our poet feems to be but a novice in his bufinefs . As yet he is not mafter of his tools . Many of ...
... himself to be but half an architect , there is great room for improvement against a future occafion , Skill is acquired by experience , Our poet feems to be but a novice in his bufinefs . As yet he is not mafter of his tools . Many of ...
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... of the crown , for which they gave the tithe of what they caught . Muller's Samlung Ruffifcher gefchichte , vi . p . 491 . " On E 2 " On the death of his father he found himself A compleat Hiftorical Account of Ruffia , St. 27.
... of the crown , for which they gave the tithe of what they caught . Muller's Samlung Ruffifcher gefchichte , vi . p . 491 . " On E 2 " On the death of his father he found himself A compleat Hiftorical Account of Ruffia , St. 27.
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... himself was born in a place.contiguous to the Onon . The first wars he waged were against the neighbour- ing princes reigning about the rivers Onon , Tola † , and Ku- rulun . " The town Holimt must have likewife been in these regions ...
... himself was born in a place.contiguous to the Onon . The first wars he waged were against the neighbour- ing princes reigning about the rivers Onon , Tola † , and Ku- rulun . " The town Holimt must have likewife been in these regions ...
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... guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew how to complain . In the Life of Plutarch he mentions The actress who fpake the epilogue . his education in the College with gratitude ; but in 36 A Select Collection of Poems .
... guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew how to complain . In the Life of Plutarch he mentions The actress who fpake the epilogue . his education in the College with gratitude ; but in 36 A Select Collection of Poems .
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... himself certain he refided fome time at the former , where he was obferved to be most excellent in the Latin and Greek tongues , but not in Logic or Philofophy , which may be prefumed to be the reafon , he took no degree there . He ...
... himself certain he refided fome time at the former , where he was obferved to be most excellent in the Latin and Greek tongues , but not in Logic or Philofophy , which may be prefumed to be the reafon , he took no degree there . He ...
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