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... wonderful acquisition to the liberty of the press . For my own part , I ever was clearly of opinion that this right was inherent in the very constitution of a Jury , and indeed in sense and reason inseparable from their important ...
... wonderful acquisition to the liberty of the press . For my own part , I ever was clearly of opinion that this right was inherent in the very constitution of a Jury , and indeed in sense and reason inseparable from their important ...
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... wonderful , Sir , what is to be found in London . The most literary conversation I ever enjoyed , was at the table of Jack Ellis , a money - scrivener behind the Royal Exchange , with whom I at one period used to dine generally once a ...
... wonderful , Sir , what is to be found in London . The most literary conversation I ever enjoyed , was at the table of Jack Ellis , a money - scrivener behind the Royal Exchange , with whom I at one period used to dine generally once a ...
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... wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers , in the half of the work which was not written by Addison ; for there was all the world to write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the ...
... wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers , in the half of the work which was not written by Addison ; for there was all the world to write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the ...
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... wonderful that Buffon , who lived so much in the country , at his noble seat , should have fallen into such a blunder . I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer . 1 Beside this Latin Epitaph , Johnson honoured the memory of his ...
... wonderful that Buffon , who lived so much in the country , at his noble seat , should have fallen into such a blunder . I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer . 1 Beside this Latin Epitaph , Johnson honoured the memory of his ...
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... wonderful performance which cannot be too often or too highly praised ; of which Mr. Harris , in his " Philological Inquiries , " 2 justly and liberally observes , " Such is its merit , that our language does not possess a more copious ...
... wonderful performance which cannot be too often or too highly praised ; of which Mr. Harris , in his " Philological Inquiries , " 2 justly and liberally observes , " Such is its merit , that our language does not possess a more copious ...
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