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Page 81
The use of it by adaptation was innocent ; and they who could so noisily censure it , with a little extension of their malice could contrive what they wanted to accuse . King Charles the Second , being now sheltered in Holland ...
The use of it by adaptation was innocent ; and they who could so noisily censure it , with a little extension of their malice could contrive what they wanted to accuse . King Charles the Second , being now sheltered in Holland ...
Page 293
Thus stands the passage in the last edition ; but in the original there was an abatement of the censure , beginning thus : But what remains will be so pure , ' twill bear Th ' examination of the most severe .
Thus stands the passage in the last edition ; but in the original there was an abatement of the censure , beginning thus : But what remains will be so pure , ' twill bear Th ' examination of the most severe .
Page 412
This censure time has not left us the power of confirming or refuting ; but observation daily shews , that much stress is not to be laid on hyperbolical accusations , and pointed sentences , which even he that utters them desires to be ...
This censure time has not left us the power of confirming or refuting ; but observation daily shews , that much stress is not to be laid on hyperbolical accusations , and pointed sentences , which even he that utters them desires to be ...
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