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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 to have had , in common with al- most all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasion " a merry fellow , " and in com- mon with most of them to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is ...
... appears to have had , in common with al- most all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasion " a merry fellow , " and in com- mon with most of them to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is ...
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... appears to have been one of the first that understood the necessity of emancipating trans- lation from the drudgery ... appear 9ıl „ bnolgad Three kingdoms ' wonder , and three kingdoms ' fearid While single he stood forth , and seem'd ...
... appears to have been one of the first that understood the necessity of emancipating trans- lation from the drudgery ... appear 9ıl „ bnolgad Three kingdoms ' wonder , and three kingdoms ' fearid While single he stood forth , and seem'd ...
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... appear to have been writ = { ten in his eighteenth year , by which it appears o that he had then read the Roman authors with it very nice discernment . b once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , remark , ” what I think is ...
... appear to have been writ = { ten in his eighteenth year , by which it appears o that he had then read the Roman authors with it very nice discernment . b once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , remark , ” what I think is ...
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... appears inbchise writings . His scheme of education , inscribed to Hartlib , su- persedes falls academical instruction , being in- tended to comprise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon ...
... appears inbchise writings . His scheme of education , inscribed to Hartlib , su- persedes falls academical instruction , being in- tended to comprise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon ...
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