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Pagina 13
... turn , got a thousand guineas by it . How many have the booksellers since accumulated ? Burn's “ Justice " was disposed of by its author for a trifle , as well as Buchan's " Domestic Medicine ; " these works yield annual incomes ...
... turn , got a thousand guineas by it . How many have the booksellers since accumulated ? Burn's “ Justice " was disposed of by its author for a trifle , as well as Buchan's " Domestic Medicine ; " these works yield annual incomes ...
Pagina 25
... turn round on the author to assist his invention . A patron of Peter Motteux , dissatisfied with Peter's colder temperament , composed the superlative dedication to himself , and completed the misery of the author by inscribing it with ...
... turn round on the author to assist his invention . A patron of Peter Motteux , dissatisfied with Peter's colder temperament , composed the superlative dedication to himself , and completed the misery of the author by inscribing it with ...
Pagina 46
... turning on all sides , with a suspicion of every object , as if he had done or feared some extraordinary mischief . You see wickedness in his meaning , but folly of countenance , that betrays him to be unfit for the execution of it . He ...
... turning on all sides , with a suspicion of every object , as if he had done or feared some extraordinary mischief . You see wickedness in his meaning , but folly of countenance , that betrays him to be unfit for the execution of it . He ...
Pagina 78
... turn was useful , and , by its extravagant trifling , must have been very amusing , He had a gossip's ear , and a tatler's pen -and , among better things , wrote down every grain of literary scandal his insatiable and minute curiosity ...
... turn was useful , and , by its extravagant trifling , must have been very amusing , He had a gossip's ear , and a tatler's pen -and , among better things , wrote down every grain of literary scandal his insatiable and minute curiosity ...
Pagina 81
... Turn over his Herculean labour ; do not admire less his fear- lessness of danger , than his indefatigable pursuit of truth . He wrote of his contemporaries as if he felt a right to judge of them , and as if he were living in the ...
... Turn over his Herculean labour ; do not admire less his fear- lessness of danger , than his indefatigable pursuit of truth . He wrote of his contemporaries as if he felt a right to judge of them , and as if he were living in the ...
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