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... writer has always declaimed , in the rage of difap- pointment , againft his age or nation ; nor is there one who has not fallen upon times more unfavour- able to learning than any former century , or who does not wifh , that he had been ...
... writer has always declaimed , in the rage of difap- pointment , againft his age or nation ; nor is there one who has not fallen upon times more unfavour- able to learning than any former century , or who does not wifh , that he had been ...
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... writer , has the fame difficulties to encounter ; he stands under the fhade of exalted merit , and is hindered from rifing to his natural height , by the interception of those beams which fhould invigorate and quicken him . He applies ...
... writer , has the fame difficulties to encounter ; he stands under the fhade of exalted merit , and is hindered from rifing to his natural height , by the interception of those beams which fhould invigorate and quicken him . He applies ...
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... writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous , because the influence of his ex- ample is more extenfive ... writers who have more beauties than faults to be displayed : for the duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor digni ...
... writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous , because the influence of his ex- ample is more extenfive ... writers who have more beauties than faults to be displayed : for the duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor digni ...
Contents
A deathbed the true fchool of wiſdom The effects | 54 |
The dignity and uſefulneſs of biography | 60 |
Paffion not to be eradicated | 66 |
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