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... Lord Halifax a dedication , in which he endeavours to reconcile the reader to that which found few friends among the audience . These apologies are always useless : de gustibus non est disputandum . Men may be convinced , but they ...
... Lord Halifax a dedication , in which he endeavours to reconcile the reader to that which found few friends among the audience . These apologies are always useless : de gustibus non est disputandum . Men may be convinced , but they ...
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... Halifax , who , by having been first a poet , and then a patron of poetry , had acquired the right of being a judge ... Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it . When I had finished the two or three first ...
... Halifax , who , by having been first a poet , and then a patron of poetry , had acquired the right of being a judge ... Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it . When I had finished the two or three first ...
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... Lord Halifax's with Dr. Garth in his chariot , and as we were going along was saying to the Doctor that my lord had laid me under a great deal of difficulty by such loose and general observations ; that I had been thinking over the ...
... Lord Halifax's with Dr. Garth in his chariot , and as we were going along was saying to the Doctor that my lord had laid me under a great deal of difficulty by such loose and general observations ; that I had been thinking over the ...
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