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... relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , fometimes remembered , and perhaps fometimes forgotten , produce that particular defignation of mind , and propenfity for fome certain 1 certain fcience or employment ...
... relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , fometimes remembered , and perhaps fometimes forgotten , produce that particular defignation of mind , and propenfity for fome certain 1 certain fcience or employment ...
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... 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 . " # 6 This is an inftance of the natural defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is ...
... 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 . " # 6 This is an inftance of the natural defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is ...
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... relate what I fear is true , that Milton was one of the laft ftudents in either univerfity that fuffered the publick indignity of corporal correction . It was , in the violence of controverfial hof- tility , objected to him , that he ...
... relate what I fear is true , that Milton was one of the laft ftudents in either univerfity that fuffered the publick indignity of corporal correction . It was , in the violence of controverfial hof- tility , objected to him , that he ...
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... relates , with great luxuriance , the compenfa- tion which the pleasures of the theatre afford him . Plays were therefore only criminal when they were acted by academicks . He went to the university with a defign of entering into the ...
... relates , with great luxuriance , the compenfa- tion which the pleasures of the theatre afford him . Plays were therefore only criminal when they were acted by academicks . He went to the university with a defign of entering into the ...
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... relate to canonical obedience . I know not any of the Articles which feem to thwart his opinions : but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the mini- ftry ...
... relate to canonical obedience . I know not any of the Articles which feem to thwart his opinions : but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the mini- ftry ...
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