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... appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius remark , what I think is true , that ...
... appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius remark , what I think is true , that ...
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... appear Lucifer , relating and insulting in what he had done to the destruction of man . Man next , and Eve having by this time been seduced by the Serpent , appears con- fusedly covered with leaves . Conscience , in a shape , accuses ...
... appear Lucifer , relating and insulting in what he had done to the destruction of man . Man next , and Eve having by this time been seduced by the Serpent , appears con- fusedly covered with leaves . Conscience , in a shape , accuses ...
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... appears attain- able only in colleges . He that lives in the world will sometimes have the succession of his practice broken and confused . Visitors , of whom Milton is represented to have had great numbers , will come and stay ...
... appears attain- able only in colleges . He that lives in the world will sometimes have the succession of his practice broken and confused . Visitors , of whom Milton is represented to have had great numbers , will come and stay ...
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