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... canons , & c . and also in all or most of the impreffions of the Common Prayer Book , printed in Queen Anne's reign , but in these latter with great variations . head and leader , and readily acquiefced in whatever he DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON .
... canons , & c . and also in all or most of the impreffions of the Common Prayer Book , printed in Queen Anne's reign , but in these latter with great variations . head and leader , and readily acquiefced in whatever he DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON .
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... most inveterate perfecutors : their hard- fhips were increased by civil commotions , and all their expectations were clouded by the death of the Empe- ror , whofe fucceffor was a bigot in the religion of the country . They then put ...
... most inveterate perfecutors : their hard- fhips were increased by civil commotions , and all their expectations were clouded by the death of the Empe- ror , whofe fucceffor was a bigot in the religion of the country . They then put ...
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... most part , men whose indigent circumftances compelled them to live in the suburbs and most obfcure parts of the town ; Grub - street then abounded with mean and old houses , which were let out in lodgings , at low rents , to persons of ...
... most part , men whose indigent circumftances compelled them to live in the suburbs and most obfcure parts of the town ; Grub - street then abounded with mean and old houses , which were let out in lodgings , at low rents , to persons of ...
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... most part , confifted in defultory reading . Let it not excite wonder in any that fhall perufe thefe memoirs , to be told , that Burton on Melancholy was a book that he frequently reforted to for the purpose of exhilaration , or that ...
... most part , confifted in defultory reading . Let it not excite wonder in any that fhall perufe thefe memoirs , to be told , that Burton on Melancholy was a book that he frequently reforted to for the purpose of exhilaration , or that ...
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... most affecting eloquence : to give it at large would be to tranfgrefs the limits I have prescribed myself , and to abridge it would injure it : I will do neither ; but referring the reader to the historian himself , will relate it as a ...
... most affecting eloquence : to give it at large would be to tranfgrefs the limits I have prescribed myself , and to abridge it would injure it : I will do neither ; but referring the reader to the historian himself , will relate it as a ...
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