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Page ix
... labour . This spring , or rather these two springs , are two holes , each about two feet diameter , a stone's cast distant from each other . One of them is about five feet and a half in depth . Lobo was not able to sink his plummet ...
... labour . This spring , or rather these two springs , are two holes , each about two feet diameter , a stone's cast distant from each other . One of them is about five feet and a half in depth . Lobo was not able to sink his plummet ...
Page xi
... labours of the Portuguese mankind is indebted for the knowledge of the real cause of these inundations , so great and so regular . By them we are informed , that Abyssinia , where the Nile rises , is full of mountains , and , in its ...
... labours of the Portuguese mankind is indebted for the knowledge of the real cause of these inundations , so great and so regular . By them we are informed , that Abyssinia , where the Nile rises , is full of mountains , and , in its ...
Page xxi
... labours , " was the answer . Wilcox , staring at him , shook his head : " By your literary labours ! You had better buy a porter's knot . " John- son used to tell this anecdote to Mr. Nichols : but he said , " Wil- cox was one of my ...
... labours , " was the answer . Wilcox , staring at him , shook his head : " By your literary labours ! You had better buy a porter's knot . " John- son used to tell this anecdote to Mr. Nichols : but he said , " Wil- cox was one of my ...
Page xxvii
... labour on a barren topick , till it is too late to change it ; or , in the ardour of invention , diffuse his ... labours flourish in a tenth edition . His posterity , as an ingenious French writer has said , on a similar occasion , began ...
... labour on a barren topick , till it is too late to change it ; or , in the ardour of invention , diffuse his ... labours flourish in a tenth edition . His posterity , as an ingenious French writer has said , on a similar occasion , began ...
Page xxx
... labours , in the cause of truth , of the reverend Dr. Douglas , the late lord bishop of Salisbury , - " Diram qui contudit Hydram , Notaque fatali portenta labore subegit . " But the pamphlet , entitled , Milton vindicated from the ...
... labours , in the cause of truth , of the reverend Dr. Douglas , the late lord bishop of Salisbury , - " Diram qui contudit Hydram , Notaque fatali portenta labore subegit . " But the pamphlet , entitled , Milton vindicated from the ...
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