Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... language . Conceiving , too , that a work of this nature is likely to fall into the hands of young and uninformed readers , I have thought it of consequence to mark distinctly the great literary æras , with a view less to give ...
... language . Conceiving , too , that a work of this nature is likely to fall into the hands of young and uninformed readers , I have thought it of consequence to mark distinctly the great literary æras , with a view less to give ...
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... language and people's habits of thought , be- come settled in a regular order of progression ; and my observations of every kind are less frequent , because less necessary . A few in- . troductory remarks only to the several reigns have ...
... language and people's habits of thought , be- come settled in a regular order of progression ; and my observations of every kind are less frequent , because less necessary . A few in- . troductory remarks only to the several reigns have ...
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... language ; possessing intrinsic value as examples of style ; as characteristic of the author ; or as distinctive of the manners and sentiments of the age . In writers of continuous reasoning , which abound from the reign of Elizabeth ...
... language ; possessing intrinsic value as examples of style ; as characteristic of the author ; or as distinctive of the manners and sentiments of the age . In writers of continuous reasoning , which abound from the reign of Elizabeth ...
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... language , which occurs in our literary annals , is the an- cient and renowned traveller , sir John Mande- ville . He was born at St. Albans about the beginning of 1300. He received a liberal edu- cation , and applied himself to the ...
... language , which occurs in our literary annals , is the an- cient and renowned traveller , sir John Mande- ville . He was born at St. Albans about the beginning of 1300. He received a liberal edu- cation , and applied himself to the ...
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... languages , and visited all the chief countries of the known earth ; among which may be enumerated Greece , Dalmatia , Armenia the greater and less , Egypt , Arabia , Chaldæa , Syria , Media , Mesopotamia , Persia , Scythia , Catha or ...
... languages , and visited all the chief countries of the known earth ; among which may be enumerated Greece , Dalmatia , Armenia the greater and less , Egypt , Arabia , Chaldæa , Syria , Media , Mesopotamia , Persia , Scythia , Catha or ...
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