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Page 43
... same time . Mr. John Canton , apprentice to the above - named Mr. Watkins , and also his fucceffor in his academy , was a contributor to the Ma- gazine , of verfes , and afterwards , of papers on philofophical and mathematical subjects ...
... same time . Mr. John Canton , apprentice to the above - named Mr. Watkins , and also his fucceffor in his academy , was a contributor to the Ma- gazine , of verfes , and afterwards , of papers on philofophical and mathematical subjects ...
Page 100
... same means of making themselves acquaint- ❝ed with our projects , and yet , when any of them are • discovered , we think it just to impute it to the negli- gence of the minifter . Thus , my lords , every man is inclined to judge with ...
... same means of making themselves acquaint- ❝ed with our projects , and yet , when any of them are • discovered , we think it just to impute it to the negli- gence of the minifter . Thus , my lords , every man is inclined to judge with ...
Page 227
... same school , named Petvin , which , with an arrow taken from the quiver of their great master , a stroke of ridicule shot from one of the Idlers , Johnfon may be fairly faid to have transfixed . The paffage is in a high degree ...
... same school , named Petvin , which , with an arrow taken from the quiver of their great master , a stroke of ridicule shot from one of the Idlers , Johnfon may be fairly faid to have transfixed . The paffage is in a high degree ...
Page 365
... same may be said of lord - chancellor Hardwicke and bishop Hoadly : the two latter , over and above their other great endowments , were claffical scholars , and , what is more , they wrote verfes ; yet were they eminent for their skill ...
... same may be said of lord - chancellor Hardwicke and bishop Hoadly : the two latter , over and above their other great endowments , were claffical scholars , and , what is more , they wrote verfes ; yet were they eminent for their skill ...
Page 456
... same as ever , fmiled : - Egad Robin ' faid Shippen , who had observed him , that's hardly fair . ' It is not a little wonderful , that Sir Robert Walpole could preferve fuch an equanimity under the greatest provocations , as he is ...
... same as ever , fmiled : - Egad Robin ' faid Shippen , who had observed him , that's hardly fair . ' It is not a little wonderful , that Sir Robert Walpole could preferve fuch an equanimity under the greatest provocations , as he is ...
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