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Pàgina xxiii
... says of Boswell's Life , " In worth as a book , we rate it beyond any other product of the eighteenth century . " And Macaulay writes , " It is assuredly a great , a very great work . Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic ...
... says of Boswell's Life , " In worth as a book , we rate it beyond any other product of the eighteenth century . " And Macaulay writes , " It is assuredly a great , a very great work . Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic ...
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... says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules without book . ' He does not tell that he could not learn the rules ; but that , being able to perform his exercises without them ...
... says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules without book . ' He does not tell that he could not learn the rules ; but that , being able to perform his exercises without them ...
Pàgina 3
... can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : Barnesii Anacreontem . " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " B2 COWLEY . 3.
... can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : Barnesii Anacreontem . " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " B2 COWLEY . 3.
Pàgina 4
Samuel Johnson. " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one ... says , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rabbins , and even the early Christians ; the latter taking the ...
Samuel Johnson. " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one ... says , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rabbins , and even the early Christians ; the latter taking the ...
Pàgina 5
... says his biographer , " under these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the king , without the consent of his bondsman : that he did not show his ...
... says his biographer , " under these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the king , without the consent of his bondsman : that he did not show his ...
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