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... acquaintance with the metre in the learned languages : though I was somewhat mortified that I had it not so much to myself , as I should have thought . " 66 Talking of the minuteness with which people will record the sayings of eminent ...
... acquaintance with the metre in the learned languages : though I was somewhat mortified that I had it not so much to myself , as I should have thought . " 66 Talking of the minuteness with which people will record the sayings of eminent ...
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... acquainted with Mr. Dossie , authour of a treatise on Agriculture ; and said of him , Sir , of the objects which the Society of Arts have chiefly in view , the chymical effects of bodies operating upon other bodies , he knows more than ...
... acquainted with Mr. Dossie , authour of a treatise on Agriculture ; and said of him , Sir , of the objects which the Society of Arts have chiefly in view , the chymical effects of bodies operating upon other bodies , he knows more than ...
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... acquaintance remembers to have heard her uncle sing those homely stanzas more than forty - five years ago . He re- peated the second thus ; She shall breed young lords and ladies fair , And ride abroad in a coach and three pair , And ...
... acquaintance remembers to have heard her uncle sing those homely stanzas more than forty - five years ago . He re- peated the second thus ; She shall breed young lords and ladies fair , And ride abroad in a coach and three pair , And ...
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... acquaintance with one of 99 3 [ Johnson , in his Life of Milton , after mentioning that great poet's extraordinary fancy that the world was in its decay , and that his book was to be written in an age too late for heroick poesy , thus ...
... acquaintance with one of 99 3 [ Johnson , in his Life of Milton , after mentioning that great poet's extraordinary fancy that the world was in its decay , and that his book was to be written in an age too late for heroick poesy , thus ...
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... acquaintance : Sir , he is an enthusiast by rule . ' " " He may hold up that SHIELD against all his ene- mies ; " was an observation on Homer , in reference to his description of the shield of Achilles , made by .3 Sterne is of a direct ...
... acquaintance : Sir , he is an enthusiast by rule . ' " " He may hold up that SHIELD against all his ene- mies ; " was an observation on Homer , in reference to his description of the shield of Achilles , made by .3 Sterne is of a direct ...
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