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Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. But the truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for ...
Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. But the truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for ...
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... knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed ...
... knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed ...
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... knowledge , and a powerful digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice , and a habit of reflection that suffered nothing useful to be lost . A mind like Dryden's , always curious , always active , to which ...
... knowledge , and a powerful digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice , and a habit of reflection that suffered nothing useful to be lost . A mind like Dryden's , always curious , always active , to which ...
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