The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 52
... true , that , when he was censuring Hippocrates , he did not know the difference between aphorism and apophthegm , he will not pay much regard to his determinations concerning ancient learning . my " As for his book of Aphorisms , it 52 ...
... true , that , when he was censuring Hippocrates , he did not know the difference between aphorism and apophthegm , he will not pay much regard to his determinations concerning ancient learning . my " As for his book of Aphorisms , it 52 ...
Page 53
... true and certain , yet they signify nothing , and may afford diversion , but no instruction ; most of them being much inferior to the sayings of the wise men of Greece , which yet are so low and mean , that we are entertained every day ...
... true and certain , yet they signify nothing , and may afford diversion , but no instruction ; most of them being much inferior to the sayings of the wise men of Greece , which yet are so low and mean , that we are entertained every day ...
Page 65
... ) in acting right , in feeling himself honest , true , and unpretending 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 FENTON . 65.
... ) in acting right , in feeling himself honest , true , and unpretending 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 FENTON . 65.
Page 79
... 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 97
... 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 marrying his sis- ter . 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 marrying his sis- ter . He ...
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