The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... volumes , the chief of which were Jewell's " Apology , " Greenwood's England , " some books of arithmetic , eight or ten volumes of the " Universal Magazine , " and an odd volume of " Chambers's Cyclopædia . " 66 It was not to be ...
... volumes , the chief of which were Jewell's " Apology , " Greenwood's England , " some books of arithmetic , eight or ten volumes of the " Universal Magazine , " and an odd volume of " Chambers's Cyclopædia . " 66 It was not to be ...
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... volume of Schutz's Eschylus , in " Maty's Review ; " a publication which was started the year before by Maty , a fellow of Trinity , Porson's senior by a few years , and which Porson con- tinued to support till it fell to the ground in ...
... volume of Schutz's Eschylus , in " Maty's Review ; " a publication which was started the year before by Maty , a fellow of Trinity , Porson's senior by a few years , and which Porson con- tinued to support till it fell to the ground in ...
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... volumes . Porson , being consulted about the publication , offered to undertake the editor- ship of it , if he were allowed to conduct it according to his own notions of an editor's duty . But on being told that he must preserve ...
... volumes . Porson , being consulted about the publication , offered to undertake the editor- ship of it , if he were allowed to conduct it according to his own notions of an editor's duty . But on being told that he must preserve ...
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... volume of Greek verses under the title of Monostrophica , " in which Dr. Charles Burney , in the pages of the " Monthly Review , " exposed several metrical errors , one of which was the shortening of the first syllable of xudos . In ...
... volume of Greek verses under the title of Monostrophica , " in which Dr. Charles Burney , in the pages of the " Monthly Review , " exposed several metrical errors , one of which was the shortening of the first syllable of xudos . In ...
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... volumes with which he met in the course of his theological reading was that of Archdeacon * Rogers's Table Talk , " Porsoniana , " p . 309 . 1789. ] TRAVIS'S " LETTERS TO GIBBON . " 57 56 [ CH . V. LIFE OF RICHARD PORSON .
... volumes with which he met in the course of his theological reading was that of Archdeacon * Rogers's Table Talk , " Porsoniana , " p . 309 . 1789. ] TRAVIS'S " LETTERS TO GIBBON . " 57 56 [ CH . V. LIFE OF RICHARD PORSON .
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