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Page 40
... continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells us , " that though our Author had daily about him one or other to read , some persons of ...
... continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells us , " that though our Author had daily about him one or other to read , some persons of ...
Page 41
... continued to the Norman Invasion . Method of Ramus . " I know not whether , even Why he should have given the first part , which he seems not to believe , and which is universally rejected , it , is difficult to conjecture , The style ...
... continued to the Norman Invasion . Method of Ramus . " I know not whether , even Why he should have given the first part , which he seems not to believe , and which is universally rejected , it , is difficult to conjecture , The style ...
Page 54
... continued in it , and why he left it , is , like the other incidents of his life , utterly unknown . The vicissitudes of his condition placed him afterwards in the family of Sir Samuel Luke , one of Cromwell's officers . Here he ...
... continued in it , and why he left it , is , like the other incidents of his life , utterly unknown . The vicissitudes of his condition placed him afterwards in the family of Sir Samuel Luke , one of Cromwell's officers . Here he ...
Page 58
... continued to believe that conjunctions and oppositions had a great part in the distribution of good or evil , and in the government of sublunary things . and the numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by ...
... continued to believe that conjunctions and oppositions had a great part in the distribution of good or evil , and in the government of sublunary things . and the numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by ...
Page 60
... continued study , his pieces are commonly short , such as one fit of re- solution would produce . His songs have no particular character ; they tell , like other songs , in smooth and easy lan- " uage , of scorn and kindness ...
... continued study , his pieces are commonly short , such as one fit of re- solution would produce . His songs have no particular character ; they tell , like other songs , in smooth and easy lan- " uage , of scorn and kindness ...
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