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Whatever is received , ' say the schools , ' is received in propor- 47 tion to the recipient ' . ' The power of a political treatise depends much upon the disposition of the people : the nation was then combustible , and a spark set it ...
Whatever is received , ' say the schools , ' is received in propor- 47 tion to the recipient ' . ' The power of a political treatise depends much upon the disposition of the people : the nation was then combustible , and a spark set it ...
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Lord Carteret3 and the Privy Council published a proclama- 78 tion , offering three hundred pounds for discovering the author of The Fourth Letter . Swift had concealed himself from his printers , and trusted only his butler ...
Lord Carteret3 and the Privy Council published a proclama- 78 tion , offering three hundred pounds for discovering the author of The Fourth Letter . Swift had concealed himself from his printers , and trusted only his butler ...
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... when Crousaz attacked his Essay on Man , for some faults which it has and some which it has not , he defended it in the Review of that time . ' Boswell's Johnson , v . 80 . 190 tion , and from month to month continued a POPE 167.
... when Crousaz attacked his Essay on Man , for some faults which it has and some which it has not , he defended it in the Review of that time . ' Boswell's Johnson , v . 80 . 190 tion , and from month to month continued a POPE 167.
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190 tion , and from month to month continued a vindication of the Essay on Man in the literary journal of that time , called The Republick of Letters1 . Pope , who probably began to doubt the tendency of his own work , was glad that the ...
190 tion , and from month to month continued a vindication of the Essay on Man in the literary journal of that time , called The Republick of Letters1 . Pope , who probably began to doubt the tendency of his own work , was glad that the ...
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He continued to the end of his life the teacher of a congrega- 17 tion , and no reader of his works can doubt his fidelity or diligence . In the pulpit , though his low stature , which very little exceeded five feet , graced him with no ...
He continued to the end of his life the teacher of a congrega- 17 tion , and no reader of his works can doubt his fidelity or diligence . In the pulpit , though his low stature , which very little exceeded five feet , graced him with no ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton Volume 3 of Lives of the English Poets, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1905 |
| Original from | University of California, Berkeley |
| Digitized | 20 Apr 2015 |
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