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... I furnished to Dr. Burnet , are pre- tended to have been lost at the presse . The rest I lent to his countryman , the late Duke of Lauderdale , who never returned them ; so as by this tretchery my 6 VARIETIES OF HISTORY AND ART .
... I furnished to Dr. Burnet , are pre- tended to have been lost at the presse . The rest I lent to his countryman , the late Duke of Lauderdale , who never returned them ; so as by this tretchery my 6 VARIETIES OF HISTORY AND ART .
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... never return , or do not even deign to cite their names whilst making use of their treasures . " Sicut canis ad Nilum , bibens et fugiens . " Thus Lord Brougham , to whom , through the channel of an illustrious academician , I had lent ...
... never return , or do not even deign to cite their names whilst making use of their treasures . " Sicut canis ad Nilum , bibens et fugiens . " Thus Lord Brougham , to whom , through the channel of an illustrious academician , I had lent ...
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... never fall into the hands of enemies ; and in 940 A.D. the Roman emperor got possession of it ; that is , he pro- cured from Edessa a document in Greek which was there treasured as the original . He had it magnificently framed in gold ...
... never fall into the hands of enemies ; and in 940 A.D. the Roman emperor got possession of it ; that is , he pro- cured from Edessa a document in Greek which was there treasured as the original . He had it magnificently framed in gold ...
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... never tired of multiplying statues of their great men , and that the highest genius was employed on the greatest : Phidias , on Pericles , Socrates , and Alcibiades : Praxiteles , on De- mosthenes ; Lysippus , on Alexander and Aristotle ...
... never tired of multiplying statues of their great men , and that the highest genius was employed on the greatest : Phidias , on Pericles , Socrates , and Alcibiades : Praxiteles , on De- mosthenes ; Lysippus , on Alexander and Aristotle ...
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... never - ceasing war waged against learning and knowledge by bigotry and ignorance , from the decline of civilisation to its revival or new birth . The Romans , ' says Disraeli the elder , burnt the books of the Jews , of the Christians ...
... never - ceasing war waged against learning and knowledge by bigotry and ignorance , from the decline of civilisation to its revival or new birth . The Romans , ' says Disraeli the elder , burnt the books of the Jews , of the Christians ...
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