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Page 239
... knowledge of my trade , I was quickly master of all that could be known , became a critic in small wares , contrived new variations of figures , and new mixtures of colours , and was sometimes consulted by the weavers , when they ...
... knowledge of my trade , I was quickly master of all that could be known , became a critic in small wares , contrived new variations of figures , and new mixtures of colours , and was sometimes consulted by the weavers , when they ...
Page 267
... knowledge with the severity required ; yet , as I am now too old to be much pained by hasty censure , I shall not be afraid of taking into protection those whom I think condemned without a sufficient know- ledge of their cause . He that ...
... knowledge with the severity required ; yet , as I am now too old to be much pained by hasty censure , I shall not be afraid of taking into protection those whom I think condemned without a sufficient know- ledge of their cause . He that ...
Page 352
... knowledge of the present world to their ac- quaintance with the past ages and remote events . Nothing has so much exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves ...
... knowledge of the present world to their ac- quaintance with the past ages and remote events . Nothing has so much exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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