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Pagina 199
... employed on the side of religion , they would have immediately sunk into silence and oblivion . ' The reasonableness of a Test is not hard to be proved ; but perhaps it must be allowed that the proper test has not been chosen . The ...
... employed on the side of religion , they would have immediately sunk into silence and oblivion . ' The reasonableness of a Test is not hard to be proved ; but perhaps it must be allowed that the proper test has not been chosen . The ...
Pagina 254
... employed who would do much work for little money . The history of the notes has never been traced . Broome , in his preface to his poems , declares him- self the commentator in part upon the Iliad ; and it appears from Fenton's Letter ...
... employed who would do much work for little money . The history of the notes has never been traced . Broome , in his preface to his poems , declares him- self the commentator in part upon the Iliad ; and it appears from Fenton's Letter ...
Pagina 386
... employed , or in what station he passed his life , is not yet discovered . He must have published his Pastorals before the year 1708 , because they are evidently prior to those of Pope . He afterwards ( 1709 ) addressed to the universal ...
... employed , or in what station he passed his life , is not yet discovered . He must have published his Pastorals before the year 1708 , because they are evidently prior to those of Pope . He afterwards ( 1709 ) addressed to the universal ...
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