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Pagina 162
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
Pagina 376
... easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present ques- tion required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquisitions , made in a state of apparent negligence and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours ...
... easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present ques- tion required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquisitions , made in a state of apparent negligence and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours ...
Pagina 406
... easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagina- tion . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a ...
... easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagina- tion . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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