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Page 199
... effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A ...
... effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A ...
Page 216
... effect . One experi- ment , however , remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end , he directed the young Lord to be called ; and when he desired , with great tenderness , to hear his last in- junctions , told him , " I ...
... effect . One experi- ment , however , remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end , he directed the young Lord to be called ; and when he desired , with great tenderness , to hear his last in- junctions , told him , " I ...
Page 302
... effect of novelty , and might , probably , be every day less ; and therefore he took no care to improve the happy time , but was encouraged by one favour to hope for another , till at length generosity was exhausted , and officiousness ...
... effect of novelty , and might , probably , be every day less ; and therefore he took no care to improve the happy time , but was encouraged by one favour to hope for another , till at length generosity was exhausted , and officiousness ...
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