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... nature , could have produced Tindal for a profound author , or furnished him with readers ? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer . For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the ...
... nature , could have produced Tindal for a profound author , or furnished him with readers ? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer . For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the ...
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... nature of language , and without any accurate enquiry into the history of other tongues . The certainty and stability which , contrary to all experience , he thinks attainable , he proposes to secure by in- stituting an academy ; the ...
... nature of language , and without any accurate enquiry into the history of other tongues . The certainty and stability which , contrary to all experience , he thinks attainable , he proposes to secure by in- stituting an academy ; the ...
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... nature , became yet more slow by irresolution ; and was content to hear that dilatoriness Bell Tavern in King Street ... natural , which he applauded in himself as SWIFT . 17.
... nature , became yet more slow by irresolution ; and was content to hear that dilatoriness Bell Tavern in King Street ... natural , which he applauded in himself as SWIFT . 17.
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Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as politick . Without the Tories , however , nothing could be done ; and as they were not to be gratified , they must be appeased ; and the conduct of the ...
Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as politick . Without the Tories , however , nothing could be done ; and as they were not to be gratified , they must be appeased ; and the conduct of the ...
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... natural right , and to like best what he makes himself is a natural passion . But to excite this passion , and enforce this right , appeared so criminal to those who had an interest in the English trade , that the printer was imprisoned ...
... natural right , and to like best what he makes himself is a natural passion . But to excite this passion , and enforce this right , appeared so criminal to those who had an interest in the English trade , that the printer was imprisoned ...
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Página 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Página 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 18 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Página 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Página 23 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5*. each. Life of Mary Queen of Soots. 2 vols. 5*. each. Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses. With Portraits. 5*.
Página 20 - Craven.' With 62 Engravings on Wood after Harvey, and 9 Engravings on Steel, chiefly after A. Cooper, RA 5*.
Página 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
Página 5 - CASTLE (E.) Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. By Egerton Castle, MA, FSA With a Complete Bibliography. Illustrated with 140 Reproductions of Old Engravings and 6 Plates of Swords, showing 114 Examples. 6s.
Página 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Página 9 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.