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... . wins del . Savage endeavouring by the most submissive tenderness to overcome the hatred of his mother . LONDON . page 128 . Printed for F. C. & IRivington and the other Proprietors . 217 . Biogr . C. 168 tx 25/2 LIVES OF. 1820 .
... . wins del . Savage endeavouring by the most submissive tenderness to overcome the hatred of his mother . LONDON . page 128 . Printed for F. C. & IRivington and the other Proprietors . 217 . Biogr . C. 168 tx 25/2 LIVES OF. 1820 .
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... endeavouring to find proofs . He continued thus confined for some time ; and Mr. Walpole ( June 10 , 1715 ) moved for an im- peachment against him . What made him so acri- monious does not appear : he was by nature no thirster for blood ...
... endeavouring to find proofs . He continued thus confined for some time ; and Mr. Walpole ( June 10 , 1715 ) moved for an im- peachment against him . What made him so acri- monious does not appear : he was by nature no thirster for blood ...
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... endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sen tence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never ...
... endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sen tence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never ...
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... endeavoured to diffuse the art of healing ; for there is scarcely any distemper , of dreadful name , which he has not taught the reader how to oppose . He has written on the small - pox , with a vehement invective against inoculation ...
... endeavoured to diffuse the art of healing ; for there is scarcely any distemper , of dreadful name , which he has not taught the reader how to oppose . He has written on the small - pox , with a vehement invective against inoculation ...
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... endeavouring to depreciate and degrade him , he either despised or defied them , wrote on as he had written before , and never turned aside to quiet them by civility or repress them by confutation . He depended with great security on ...
... endeavouring to depreciate and degrade him , he either despised or defied them , wrote on as he had written before , and never turned aside to quiet them by civility or repress them by confutation . He depended with great security on ...
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