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Pagina 104
... performance of reading , and exactly pronouncing of all the languages of whatever book he should , at one time or other , think fit to peruse , viz . the Hebrew ( and I think the Syriac ) , the Greek , the Latin , the 104 LIVES OF THE ...
... performance of reading , and exactly pronouncing of all the languages of whatever book he should , at one time or other , think fit to peruse , viz . the Hebrew ( and I think the Syriac ) , the Greek , the Latin , the 104 LIVES OF THE ...
Pagina 157
... performance , Nothing must be considered as having not only a negative but a kind of positive signification ; as I need not fear thieves , I have nothing ; and nothing is a very powerful pro- tector . In the first part of the sentence ...
... performance , Nothing must be considered as having not only a negative but a kind of positive signification ; as I need not fear thieves , I have nothing ; and nothing is a very powerful pro- tector . In the first part of the sentence ...
Pagina 202
... performance . ' This , however , was no very mischievous or very unusual deviation from truth : had his hypocrisy been confined to such transactions , he might have been forgiven , though not praised ; for who forbears to flatter an ...
... performance . ' This , however , was no very mischievous or very unusual deviation from truth : had his hypocrisy been confined to such transactions , he might have been forgiven , though not praised ; for who forbears to flatter an ...
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