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... honour . So wide tenseness : for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work , of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but ...
... honour . So wide tenseness : for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work , of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but ...
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... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be inquired before he can be ...
... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be inquired before he can be ...
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... honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
... honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
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... honour or where consience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . . to these compositions . No author ever kept his COWLEY . 19 .
... honour or where consience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . . to these compositions . No author ever kept his COWLEY . 19 .
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... honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; * but * It has , nevertheless , its foundation in reality . The Earl of Bridgewater being President of Wales in the year ...
... honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; * but * It has , nevertheless , its foundation in reality . The Earl of Bridgewater being President of Wales in the year ...
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