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Page 41
... true , that , when he was censuring Hippocrates , he did not know the difference be- tween aphorism and apophthegm , he will not pay much regard to his determinations concerning ancient learning . " As for his book of Aphorisms , it is ...
... true , that , when he was censuring Hippocrates , he did not know the difference be- tween aphorism and apophthegm , he will not pay much regard to his determinations concerning ancient learning . " As for his book of Aphorisms , it is ...
Page 42
... true and impartial History of the Conspiracy against King William , of glorious Memory , in the Year 1695. " This I have never seen , but suppose it at least compiled with integrity . He engaged likewise in theological controversy , and ...
... true and impartial History of the Conspiracy against King William , of glorious Memory , in the Year 1695. " This I have never seen , but suppose it at least compiled with integrity . He engaged likewise in theological controversy , and ...
Page 51
... true , and un- pretending to more than was his own . So he dyed , as he lived , with that secret , yet sufficient , Contentment . As to any Papers left behind him , I dare say they can be but few ; for this reason , he never wrote out ...
... true , and un- pretending to more than was his own . So he dyed , as he lived , with that secret , yet sufficient , Contentment . As to any Papers left behind him , I dare say they can be but few ; for this reason , he never wrote out ...
Page 62
... true at once to the King and to the church . Of this regulated loyalty he has transmitted to posterity a sufficient proof , in the letter which he wrote to his father about a month before the Prince of Orange landed . " Mar , near ...
... true at once to the King and to the church . Of this regulated loyalty he has transmitted to posterity a sufficient proof , in the letter which he wrote to his father about a month before the Prince of Orange landed . " Mar , near ...
Page 76
... true and part false . He was the second son of Anthony Hammond , a man of note among the wits , poets , and parliamentary orators , in the beginning of this century , who was allied to Sir Robert Walpole by mar- rying his sister . He ...
... true and part false . He was the second son of Anthony Hammond , a man of note among the wits , poets , and parliamentary orators , in the beginning of this century , who was allied to Sir Robert Walpole by mar- rying his sister . He ...
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