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Page 12
... translation found its way into a mifcellany published by fubfcription at Oxford , in the year 1731 , under the name of J. Husbands . * He had but little relifh for mathematical learning , and was content with fuch a degree of knowledge ...
... translation found its way into a mifcellany published by fubfcription at Oxford , in the year 1731 , under the name of J. Husbands . * He had but little relifh for mathematical learning , and was content with fuch a degree of knowledge ...
Page 19
... translate , and at the bottom of the page have in- ferted verbatim . 1732 , June 15 , I laid by eleven guineas ; on which day I received all of my father's effects which I can hope for till the death of my mother , ( which I pray may be ...
... translate , and at the bottom of the page have in- ferted verbatim . 1732 , June 15 , I laid by eleven guineas ; on which day I received all of my father's effects which I can hope for till the death of my mother , ( which I pray may be ...
Page 20
... translator of this work would be difputable ; it has fcarce a feature resembling him : the language is as fimple and unornamented as John Bunyan's ; the ftyle is far from elegant , and fometimes it is not even correct . These circumftan ...
... translator of this work would be difputable ; it has fcarce a feature resembling him : the language is as fimple and unornamented as John Bunyan's ; the ftyle is far from elegant , and fometimes it is not even correct . These circumftan ...
Page 33
... translate out of his introduction . They then proceed to Erafmus , reading him with Clarke's tranflation . Thefe books form the first class . Clafs II . Class III . Read Eutrophius and Cornelius Nepos , or Juftin with the tranflation ...
... translate out of his introduction . They then proceed to Erafmus , reading him with Clarke's tranflation . Thefe books form the first class . Clafs II . Class III . Read Eutrophius and Cornelius Nepos , or Juftin with the tranflation ...
Page 35
... translation either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very good scholar and a poet , and , I have great hopes , ⚫ will turn out a fine tragedy - writer . If it fhould any ways lay in your way , doubt not but you would be ready ...
... translation either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very good scholar and a poet , and , I have great hopes , ⚫ will turn out a fine tragedy - writer . If it fhould any ways lay in your way , doubt not but you would be ready ...
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