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... at Seven - oaks , in Kent , which he brought into reputation ; but was persuaded to leave it ( 1710 ) by Mr. St. John , with promises of a more honourable employment . His opinions , as he was a nonjuror , seem 46 FENTON . FENTON.
... at Seven - oaks , in Kent , which he brought into reputation ; but was persuaded to leave it ( 1710 ) by Mr. St. John , with promises of a more honourable employment . His opinions , as he was a nonjuror , seem 46 FENTON . FENTON.
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Samuel Johnson. His opinions , as he was a nonjuror , seem not to have been remarkably rigid . He wrote with great zeal and affection the praises of Queen Anne , and very willingly and liberally extolled the Duke of Marlborough , when he ...
Samuel Johnson. His opinions , as he was a nonjuror , seem not to have been remarkably rigid . He wrote with great zeal and affection the praises of Queen Anne , and very willingly and liberally extolled the Duke of Marlborough , when he ...
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... opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ; " but others , and among them Dr. Herring , afterwards Archbishop of ...
... opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ; " but others , and among them Dr. Herring , afterwards Archbishop of ...
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... opinions of the men by whom he was afterwards befriended . Mr. Addison , however he hated the men then in power , suffered his friendship to prevail over his public spirit , and gave in the " Spectator " such praises of Tickell's poem ...
... opinions of the men by whom he was afterwards befriended . Mr. Addison , however he hated the men then in power , suffered his friendship to prevail over his public spirit , and gave in the " Spectator " such praises of Tickell's poem ...
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... opinion on his death - bed , he thought it his duty to provide for him among his other natural children , and therefore demanded a positive account of him , with an importunity not to be diverted or denied . His mother , who could no ...
... opinion on his death - bed , he thought it his duty to provide for him among his other natural children , and therefore demanded a positive account of him , with an importunity not to be diverted or denied . His mother , who could no ...
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