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... , or any other book . One cannot indeed , without offence to yourself , observe , that you excel the reft of mankind in the leaft , as well as the greatest endowments . Nor were it a cir- cumstance to be DEDICATION .
... , or any other book . One cannot indeed , without offence to yourself , observe , that you excel the reft of mankind in the leaft , as well as the greatest endowments . Nor were it a cir- cumstance to be DEDICATION .
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... observations follow one another like thofe in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical regularity which would have been requifite in a profe author . They are fome of them uncommon , but fuch as the reader muft affent to , when ...
... observations follow one another like thofe in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical regularity which would have been requifite in a profe author . They are fome of them uncommon , but fuch as the reader muft affent to , when ...
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... observe that thofe are generally most unfuccessful in their purfuit after fame , who are moft defirous of ob- taining it . It is Salluft's remark upon . Cato , that the lefs he coveted glory the more he acquired it . Men take an ill ...
... observe that thofe are generally most unfuccessful in their purfuit after fame , who are moft defirous of ob- taining it . It is Salluft's remark upon . Cato , that the lefs he coveted glory the more he acquired it . Men take an ill ...
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... observed , that in all ages they have been more careful than the men to adorn that part of the head , which we generally call the outfide . This obfervation is fo very notorious , that when in or dinary difcourfe we fay a man has a fine ...
... observed , that in all ages they have been more careful than the men to adorn that part of the head , which we generally call the outfide . This obfervation is fo very notorious , that when in or dinary difcourfe we fay a man has a fine ...
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... observed under each of them , as alfo of fuch other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them . This I thought fit to premife , that the reader may not judge too hastily of this piece of criticifm , or look upon it as ...
... observed under each of them , as alfo of fuch other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them . This I thought fit to premife , that the reader may not judge too hastily of this piece of criticifm , or look upon it as ...
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Page 67 - Roman empire, has described the birth of its great rival, the Carthaginian commonwealth, Milton with the like art in his poem on the fall of man has related the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies.
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