The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... language , and when he had once learned the English grammar he was never known to make a grammatical error ; nor did he ever seem to forget what he had once read . His love of algebra he caught from a book on the science at his father's ...
... language , and when he had once learned the English grammar he was never known to make a grammatical error ; nor did he ever seem to forget what he had once read . His love of algebra he caught from a book on the science at his father's ...
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... language . What I do for him is gratis , otherwise I should think myself guilty of injustice . They are now getting the Greek verbs , and will begin the Greek Testament shortly . This boy and one of my own generally employ an hour or ...
... language . What I do for him is gratis , otherwise I should think myself guilty of injustice . They are now getting the Greek verbs , and will begin the Greek Testament shortly . This boy and one of my own generally employ an hour or ...
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... language of which in the beginning of 1773 he was only studying the verbs , I cannot say . " Lam- bert ceased to reside in college soon after , and heard nothing more of Porson till he had grown up and become distinguished . He ...
... language of which in the beginning of 1773 he was only studying the verbs , I cannot say . " Lam- bert ceased to reside in college soon after , and heard nothing more of Porson till he had grown up and become distinguished . He ...
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... Language , " with notes ; a book which , as Kidd thinks , would have been better for our public schools than Vigerus . But the design was never executed . In March 1783 he appears to have first published an essay in criticism , a review ...
... Language , " with notes ; a book which , as Kidd thinks , would have been better for our public schools than Vigerus . But the design was never executed . In March 1783 he appears to have first published an essay in criticism , a review ...
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... language as would , in our days , be accounted scurrilous enough ; but it passed in those days without any notice or reprehension . The world is since greatly altered for the better . We have , indeed , retained the matter , but ...
... language as would , in our days , be accounted scurrilous enough ; but it passed in those days without any notice or reprehension . The world is since greatly altered for the better . We have , indeed , retained the matter , but ...
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