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... say , a man of great wit and ftupendous parts , but of very profligate manners . He was chaplain to Lord Chester- field during his refidence at the Hague ; but , as his lordship was ufed to tell him , precluded all hope of preferment by ...
... say , a man of great wit and ftupendous parts , but of very profligate manners . He was chaplain to Lord Chester- field during his refidence at the Hague ; but , as his lordship was ufed to tell him , precluded all hope of preferment by ...
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... say , that he never remember- ed to have enjoyed the ufe of it . It may feem a ridiculous attempt to trace the dawn of his poetical faculty fo far back as to his very infancy ; but the following incident I am compelled to mention , as ...
... say , that he never remember- ed to have enjoyed the ufe of it . It may feem a ridiculous attempt to trace the dawn of his poetical faculty fo far back as to his very infancy ; but the following incident I am compelled to mention , as ...
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... say , - • Slow rifes worth by poverty depreft . ' his fpirit was , nevertheless , too great to fink under this depreffion . His tutor , Jordan , in about a year's fpace , went off to a living which he had been presented to , upon giving ...
... say , - • Slow rifes worth by poverty depreft . ' his fpirit was , nevertheless , too great to fink under this depreffion . His tutor , Jordan , in about a year's fpace , went off to a living which he had been presented to , upon giving ...
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... say , I had a greater affection for you upon it , than I had before , being long fince fo much endeared to you , as well by an early friend- fhip , as by your many excellent and valuable quali fications . And , had I a fon of my own ...
... say , I had a greater affection for you upon it , than I had before , being long fince fo much endeared to you , as well by an early friend- fhip , as by your many excellent and valuable quali fications . And , had I a fon of my own ...
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... the poffibility that both might concenter in the fame perfon , just as when , in the comparison of women , women , we say , that virtue is of more DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 47 moral culture, and for want thereof, we find ...
... the poffibility that both might concenter in the fame perfon , just as when , in the comparison of women , women , we say , that virtue is of more DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 47 moral culture, and for want thereof, we find ...
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