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... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his ...
... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his ...
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... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of ...
... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of ...
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... honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
... honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
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... honour or where conscience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand , For days that ...
... honour or where conscience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand , For days that ...
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... honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of bor- rowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora ...
... honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of bor- rowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora ...
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