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... gives reafon to fufpect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood reprefents as ftruggling earueftly to procure him a lite ...
... gives reafon to fufpect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood reprefents as ftruggling earueftly to procure him a lite ...
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... gives a very fatisfactory account of this practice of seeking fates in books : and fays , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rab- bins , and even the early Chriftians ; the latter taking the New Teftament for their oracle . H ...
... gives a very fatisfactory account of this practice of seeking fates in books : and fays , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rab- bins , and even the early Chriftians ; the latter taking the New Teftament for their oracle . H ...
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... gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always fecured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the difpofal of another , may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no ...
... gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always fecured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the difpofal of another , may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no ...
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... century appeared a race of writers that be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac- may count . The The metaphyfical poets were men of learn- ing , and COWLEY .
... century appeared a race of writers that be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac- may count . The The metaphyfical poets were men of learn- ing , and COWLEY .
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... give luftre to works which have more propriety though lefs copiousness of fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I be- lieve , borrowed from Marino and his follow- ers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of a ...
... give luftre to works which have more propriety though lefs copiousness of fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I be- lieve , borrowed from Marino and his follow- ers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of a ...
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