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... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was publish- ed ; for he imagined , as he declared in his ...
... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was publish- ed ; for he imagined , as he declared in his ...
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... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of ...
... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of ...
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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 . 031 to these compositions . No author ever kept his verse ...
... 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 . 031 to these compositions . No author ever kept his verse ...
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... honour of being acted by the were near having , to the eyes of the courtiers Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The and court ladies , their grooms and mademoi - fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; * but selles . od 1309 ...
... honour of being acted by the were near having , to the eyes of the courtiers Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The and court ladies , their grooms and mademoi - fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; * but selles . od 1309 ...
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