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... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
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... Sprat , to relate , " That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is ...
... Sprat , to relate , " That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is ...
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Samuel Johnson. SPRAT THOMAS SPRAT was born in 1636 , at Tallaton in Devon- shire , the son of a clergyman ; and having been educated , as he tells of himself , not at Westminster or Eaton , but at a little school by the churchyard side ...
Samuel Johnson. SPRAT THOMAS SPRAT was born in 1636 , at Tallaton in Devon- shire , the son of a clergyman ; and having been educated , as he tells of himself , not at Westminster or Eaton , but at a little school by the churchyard side ...
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