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... received , ie the best proof of that universal taste for reading and rapid intellectual improvement , which pre - eminently distinguish the present age . " - Lord John Russell's Speech on Reform . A Uniform , Cheap and Elegant Library ...
... received , ie the best proof of that universal taste for reading and rapid intellectual improvement , which pre - eminently distinguish the present age . " - Lord John Russell's Speech on Reform . A Uniform , Cheap and Elegant Library ...
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... received the " weary of the vexations and formalities of an news of his ill - success , not with so much firm - active condition . He had been perplexed with ness as might have been expected from so great a long compliance to foreign ...
... received the " weary of the vexations and formalities of an news of his ill - success , not with so much firm - active condition . He had been perplexed with ness as might have been expected from so great a long compliance to foreign ...
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... received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the Vatican Library , who had resided three years at Oxford , intro- duced him to Cardinal Barberini : and he , at a musical entertainment , waited for him ...
... received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the Vatican Library , who had resided three years at Oxford , intro- duced him to Cardinal Barberini : and he , at a musical entertainment , waited for him ...
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... received more boys to be boarded and in- structed . and all tell what they do not know to be true , only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself disgraceful . His father was alive ; his allowance was not ample ...
... received more boys to be boarded and in- structed . and all tell what they do not know to be true , only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself disgraceful . His father was alive ; his allowance was not ample ...
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... received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . He published about the same time his Arcopa- gitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liber- ty of unlicensed Printing . The ...
... received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . He published about the same time his Arcopa- gitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liber- ty of unlicensed Printing . The ...
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