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... virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming so deservedly in favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity ...
... virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming so deservedly in favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity ...
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... virtues of Tamerlane seem to have been arbitrarily assigned him by his poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis all ...
... virtues of Tamerlane seem to have been arbitrarily assigned him by his poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis all ...
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... virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guess . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted lest he should be thought a promoter of insurrection , and the line was liquidated to ...
... virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guess . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted lest he should be thought a promoter of insurrection , and the line was liquidated to ...
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... as Tickell remarks , the basis is narrow , and to which I know not how love could have been appended . There would however have been no 1 Spence . want either of virtue in the sentiments , or elegance 74 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... as Tickell remarks , the basis is narrow , and to which I know not how love could have been appended . There would however have been no 1 Spence . want either of virtue in the sentiments , or elegance 74 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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Samuel Johnson. want either of virtue in the sentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Christian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he designed to have made a new ...
Samuel Johnson. want either of virtue in the sentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Christian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he designed to have made a new ...
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