The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... read at Eton , before he became an Etonian , he himself told Mr. Maltby , and said that almost the only thing he recollected with pleasure during his Eton course was the rat - hunting with which the boys amused themselves in c 2.
... read at Eton , before he became an Etonian , he himself told Mr. Maltby , and said that almost the only thing he recollected with pleasure during his Eton course was the rat - hunting with which the boys amused themselves in c 2.
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... Maltby , into whose hands it had passed . We have perused it , and found it , as might be expected , but a schoolboy performance ; but , as the youthful production of one afterwards so famous , the reader may not be displeased if we ...
... Maltby , into whose hands it had passed . We have perused it , and found it , as might be expected , but a schoolboy performance ; but , as the youthful production of one afterwards so famous , the reader may not be displeased if we ...
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... Maltby , who , being Porson's intimate friend , has bespattered him with ungracious anecdote more than any other person that has written of him , relates that " during the earlier part of his career , he accepted the situation of tutor ...
... Maltby , who , being Porson's intimate friend , has bespattered him with ungracious anecdote more than any other person that has written of him , relates that " during the earlier part of his career , he accepted the situation of tutor ...
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... Maltby , always expressed contempt . When the first portion of the " Musa Eton- enses " was published , he exclaimed that it was " trash , fit only to be put behind the fire . " In passing this judgment he regarded it with the eye of a ...
... Maltby , always expressed contempt . When the first portion of the " Musa Eton- enses " was published , he exclaimed that it was " trash , fit only to be put behind the fire . " In passing this judgment he regarded it with the eye of a ...
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... Maltby of his theological studies , " I found , " said he , " that I should require about fifty years ' reading to make myself thoroughly acquainted with divinity , to satisfy my mind on all points , -and therefore I gave it up . There ...
... Maltby of his theological studies , " I found , " said he , " that I should require about fifty years ' reading to make myself thoroughly acquainted with divinity , to satisfy my mind on all points , -and therefore I gave it up . There ...
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