The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... honoured with no complete biography . Various notices of him were published about the time of his death , and anecdotes and short accounts of him have occasionally appeared since , but no full history of his life has ever been offered ...
... honoured with no complete biography . Various notices of him were published about the time of his death , and anecdotes and short accounts of him have occasionally appeared since , but no full history of his life has ever been offered ...
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... honour , with its frequent attendant disquiet , is ill gained by the sacrifice of tranquillity and ease . It might seem that those who are content to pursue the humble path of life , who feel and acknow- ledge the inferiority of their ...
... honour , with its frequent attendant disquiet , is ill gained by the sacrifice of tranquillity and ease . It might seem that those who are content to pursue the humble path of life , who feel and acknow- ledge the inferiority of their ...
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... honour to his memory . " That he could repeat by heart almost all the books 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 ...
... honour to his memory . " That he could repeat by heart almost all the books 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 ...
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... honour they have done me , shall answer you with all possible conciseness , that I have no design of making any use of Bentley's papers respecting Homer , and that , generally speaking , I think there will be no harm in letting ...
... honour they have done me , shall answer you with all possible conciseness , that I have no design of making any use of Bentley's papers respecting Homer , and that , generally speaking , I think there will be no harm in letting ...
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... honour enough for Alcuin to collate the copies of the Vulgate . . . . But you will be delighted , Sir , I doubt not , to hear that this treasure of inestimable value is still in being . Bianchini has given a specimen of the character in ...
... honour enough for Alcuin to collate the copies of the Vulgate . . . . But you will be delighted , Sir , I doubt not , to hear that this treasure of inestimable value is still in being . Bianchini has given a specimen of the character in ...
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