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Pagina 26
... reason will be valued . The book in the greatest part is borrowed from modern historians , but yet contains some things more uncommon , and not easily to be met with . " How superlatively rare must be the English volumes which the eyes ...
... reason will be valued . The book in the greatest part is borrowed from modern historians , but yet contains some things more uncommon , and not easily to be met with . " How superlatively rare must be the English volumes which the eyes ...
Pagina 29
... reason of contraries , that the Parca or Destinies , were so called , because they spared none , or were not truly the Parcæ , quia non parcebant . " Our indigent and indignant author , by the faithfulness of his representations ...
... reason of contraries , that the Parca or Destinies , were so called , because they spared none , or were not truly the Parcæ , quia non parcebant . " Our indigent and indignant author , by the faithfulness of his representations ...
Pagina 34
... reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , " etc. I doubt if either the sarcastic antiquary or the rhetorical panegyrist have developed the simple truth of Cowley's " violent inclina- tion of his own mind ...
... reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , " etc. I doubt if either the sarcastic antiquary or the rhetorical panegyrist have developed the simple truth of Cowley's " violent inclina- tion of his own mind ...
Pagina 55
... reason why Mr. Pope adds the dirty dialect to that of the water , and is in love with the Nymphs of Fleet - ditch ; and in a lecture on the spleen , he announced “ an anatomical discovery , that Mr. Pope's spleen is bigger than his head ...
... reason why Mr. Pope adds the dirty dialect to that of the water , and is in love with the Nymphs of Fleet - ditch ; and in a lecture on the spleen , he announced “ an anatomical discovery , that Mr. Pope's spleen is bigger than his head ...
Pagina 57
... reason in the thing to produce elsewhere the like circumstances . " He proceeds to show " the ca- Jumnies and reproaches , and the novelty and impiety , with which Christianity , at its first setting out , was charged , as a mean ...
... reason in the thing to produce elsewhere the like circumstances . " He proceeds to show " the ca- Jumnies and reproaches , and the novelty and impiety , with which Christianity , at its first setting out , was charged , as a mean ...
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