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... appears to have been without knowledge , or without care . He makes no selection of words , nor seeks any neatness of phrase : he has no elegances , either lucky or elaborate : as his endeavours were rather to impress sentences upon the ...
... appears to have been without knowledge , or without care . He makes no selection of words , nor seeks any neatness of phrase : he has no elegances , either lucky or elaborate : as his endeavours were rather to impress sentences upon the ...
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... appears , whenever any terious question comes before him , to have been aman of piety , he consecrated his poetical powers to religion , and , made a metrical version of the Psalms of David . In this attempt he has failed ; but in ...
... appears , whenever any terious question comes before him , to have been aman of piety , he consecrated his poetical powers to religion , and , made a metrical version of the Psalms of David . In this attempt he has failed ; but in ...
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... appear , loemisel Ill fate could save , my country's funeral flame 11. touneliste ad did ton woni I That servile ... appears to have been one of the first that understood the necessity of emancipating trans- lation from the drudgery ...
... appear , loemisel Ill fate could save , my country's funeral flame 11. touneliste ad did ton woni I That servile ... appears to have been one of the first that understood the necessity of emancipating trans- lation from the drudgery ...
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... appear to have been writ ten in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors withi very nice discernment once hearde Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , remark , what I think is true , that ...
... appear to have been writ ten in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors withi very nice discernment once hearde Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , remark , what I think is true , that ...
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... appears in his writings . His scheme of education , inscribed to Hartlib , su- persedes all academical instruction , being in- tended to comprise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon grammar ...
... appears in his writings . His scheme of education , inscribed to Hartlib , su- persedes all academical instruction , being in- tended to comprise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon grammar ...
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