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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... quarto volumes ( without including his letters ) , and would thus entitle him by their quantity alone to be ranked as one of the most considerable writers of his time ; of which we have abundant testimony that he was one of the most ...
... quarto volumes ( without including his letters ) , and would thus entitle him by their quantity alone to be ranked as one of the most considerable writers of his time ; of which we have abundant testimony that he was one of the most ...
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... quarto volumes the first appeared in 1774 , the second in 1778 , the last in 1781. Dr. Joseph Warton , the elder brother of Thomas , is also the writer of some agreeable verses ; but the book by which his name will live is his Essay on ...
... quarto volumes the first appeared in 1774 , the second in 1778 , the last in 1781. Dr. Joseph Warton , the elder brother of Thomas , is also the writer of some agreeable verses ; but the book by which his name will live is his Essay on ...
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... quarto , in 1790 ; having , however , been preceded by the Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides , which was published the year after Johnson's death . It has been remarked , with truth , that his own works and Boswell's Life of him ...
... quarto , in 1790 ; having , however , been preceded by the Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides , which was published the year after Johnson's death . It has been remarked , with truth , that his own works and Boswell's Life of him ...
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... quarto , at Edinburgh , in 1754 ; the second , containing the Commonwealth and the Reigns of Charles II . and James II . , at London , in 1757. † According to his own account the former was received with " one cry of reproach ...
... quarto , at Edinburgh , in 1754 ; the second , containing the Commonwealth and the Reigns of Charles II . and James II . , at London , in 1757. † According to his own account the former was received with " one cry of reproach ...
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... quarto volume of Essays on subjects in speculative and mixed mathematics , a work on the doctrine of Annuities and Reversion , a second volume of Mathematical Disser- tations , a treatise on Algebra , another on Elementary Geometry ...
... quarto volume of Essays on subjects in speculative and mixed mathematics , a work on the doctrine of Annuities and Reversion , a second volume of Mathematical Disser- tations , a treatise on Algebra , another on Elementary Geometry ...
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