The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... , they find them , perhaps , the more they search , obscured by such defects as they could at one time have scarcely imagined . They find gold , but gold mingled with clay . It might seem , indeed , that superior qualities of B 2.
... , they find them , perhaps , the more they search , obscured by such defects as they could at one time have scarcely imagined . They find gold , but gold mingled with clay . It might seem , indeed , that superior qualities of B 2.
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... Perhaps you may wonder that I have said nothing of Greek hitherto , but my method ( perhaps a wrong one ) is to have lads pretty well versed in Latin first , and , as my own boys are by no means equal to him , I was obliged to defer it ...
... Perhaps you may wonder that I have said nothing of Greek hitherto , but my method ( perhaps a wrong one ) is to have lads pretty well versed in Latin first , and , as my own boys are by no means equal to him , I was obliged to defer it ...
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... perhaps by his recommendation that the school chosen for Porson was that of Eton , at which he was entered in the month of August 1774 , when he was in his fifteenth year . CHAP . II . PORSON AT ETON.-DR. GOODALL'S ACCOUNT OF.
... perhaps by his recommendation that the school chosen for Porson was that of Eton , at which he was entered in the month of August 1774 , when he was in his fifteenth year . CHAP . II . PORSON AT ETON.-DR. GOODALL'S ACCOUNT OF.
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... perhaps he ought to have been in consequence of his actual attainments . With respect to prosody , he knew but little ; and as to Greek he had made comparatively but little progress when he came to Eton . The very ingenious and learned ...
... perhaps he ought to have been in consequence of his actual attainments . With respect to prosody , he knew but little ; and as to Greek he had made comparatively but little progress when he came to Eton . The very ingenious and learned ...
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... perhaps I should not have been amenable to any known judicature by keeping the watch , I consented , being compelled thereto , to let this worthless fellow retain that testimony of his master's ill - directed benevolence in ex- tremis ...
... perhaps I should not have been amenable to any known judicature by keeping the watch , I consented , being compelled thereto , to let this worthless fellow retain that testimony of his master's ill - directed benevolence in ex- tremis ...
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