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... knowledge in minds only seeking amusement , and refresh the deeper studies of the learned by matters not unworthy of their curiosity . The titles of CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS and QUARRELS OF AUTHORS do not wholly designate the works , which ...
... knowledge in minds only seeking amusement , and refresh the deeper studies of the learned by matters not unworthy of their curiosity . The titles of CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS and QUARRELS OF AUTHORS do not wholly designate the works , which ...
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... knowledge of these " Authors by Profession , " writers of a faction in the name of the community , as they have been well described , that our great statesman Pitt fell into an error which he lived to regret . He did not distinguish ...
... knowledge of these " Authors by Profession , " writers of a faction in the name of the community , as they have been well described , that our great statesman Pitt fell into an error which he lived to regret . He did not distinguish ...
Pagina 36
... knowledge . These were particular advantages . But Horace Waipole panted with a secret desire for literary celebrity ; a full sense of his distin- guished rank long suppressed the desire of venturing the name he bore to the uncertain ...
... knowledge . These were particular advantages . But Horace Waipole panted with a secret desire for literary celebrity ; a full sense of his distin- guished rank long suppressed the desire of venturing the name he bore to the uncertain ...
Pagina 37
... knowledge , but much too lively to be accurate ; for his studies were but his sports . But other qualities of genius must distinguish the great author , and even him who would occupy that leading rank in the literary republic our author ...
... knowledge , but much too lively to be accurate ; for his studies were but his sports . But other qualities of genius must distinguish the great author , and even him who would occupy that leading rank in the literary republic our author ...
Pagina 51
... knowledge of oriental studies , with some etymologies from the Persic , the Hebrew , and the Greek , concerning the name and person of Ahasuerus , whom he makes to be Xerxes . The close of this preface gives another unexpected feature ...
... knowledge of oriental studies , with some etymologies from the Persic , the Hebrew , and the Greek , concerning the name and person of Ahasuerus , whom he makes to be Xerxes . The close of this preface gives another unexpected feature ...
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