Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... compositions in the language ; but are probably now very little read . They are substantial performances , such as make the reader feel , when he has got through one of them , that he has accomplished something of a feat ; and , OTHER ...
... compositions in the language ; but are probably now very little read . They are substantial performances , such as make the reader feel , when he has got through one of them , that he has accomplished something of a feat ; and , OTHER ...
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... composition of which had been the employ- ment of the last years of his industrious and productive old age . Locke's famous Essay was the first work , per- haps in any language , which professedly or systematically attempted to ...
... composition of which had been the employ- ment of the last years of his industrious and productive old age . Locke's famous Essay was the first work , per- haps in any language , which professedly or systematically attempted to ...
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... his reasons for holding the compositions printed by Boyle , and ranked by him with the most precious remains of the remotest antiquity , to be a comparatively modern forgery ; BOYLE AND BENTLEY CONTROVERSY . 33 Boyle and Bentley ...
... his reasons for holding the compositions printed by Boyle , and ranked by him with the most precious remains of the remotest antiquity , to be a comparatively modern forgery ; BOYLE AND BENTLEY CONTROVERSY . 33 Boyle and Bentley ...
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... composition of his tutor , the celebrated Dr. Francis Atterbury , after- wards Bishop of Rochester , whose very considerable attainments in classical scholarship were enlivened and decorated by the finest spirit of wit and humour . Some ...
... composition of his tutor , the celebrated Dr. Francis Atterbury , after- wards Bishop of Rochester , whose very considerable attainments in classical scholarship were enlivened and decorated by the finest spirit of wit and humour . Some ...
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... compositions , re- ceive different appellations . If one of them be trimmed up with a gold chain , and a red gown , and a white rod , and a great horse , it is called a lord mayor ; if certain ermines and furs be placed in a certain ...
... compositions , re- ceive different appellations . If one of them be trimmed up with a gold chain , and a red gown , and a white rod , and a great horse , it is called a lord mayor ; if certain ermines and furs be placed in a certain ...
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