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... King returned to London , with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit , and published some essays called Useful Transactions . His Voyage to the Island of Cajamai is particularly commended . He then wrote the Art of Love , a poem ...
... King returned to London , with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit , and published some essays called Useful Transactions . His Voyage to the Island of Cajamai is particularly commended . He then wrote the Art of Love , a poem ...
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... King was resolved to counteract his sullenness , and at the expense of a few barrels of ale filled the neighbourhood with honest merriment . In the autumn of 1712 his health declined ; he grew weaker by degrees , and died on Christmas ...
... King was resolved to counteract his sullenness , and at the expense of a few barrels of ale filled the neighbourhood with honest merriment . In the autumn of 1712 his health declined ; he grew weaker by degrees , and died on Christmas ...
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... king . As he was the favourite of Wilkins , at whose house began those philosophical conferences and inquiries ... King his Present Majesty and the Present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution ...
... king . As he was the favourite of Wilkins , at whose house began those philosophical conferences and inquiries ... King his Present Majesty and the Present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution ...
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... King James ; to seize the Princess of Orange , dead or alive ; and to be ready with thirty thousand men to meet King James when he should land . To this they put the names of Sancroft , Sprat , Marlborough , Salisbury , and others . The ...
... King James ; to seize the Princess of Orange , dead or alive ; and to be ready with thirty thousand men to meet King James when he should land . To this they put the names of Sancroft , Sprat , Marlborough , Salisbury , and others . The ...
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... king ; which , he said , was of as much value as the thanks of the Commons . The works of Sprat , besides his few poems , are , The History of the Royal Society , The Life of Cowley , The Answer to Sorbière , The History of the Ryehouse ...
... king ; which , he said , was of as much value as the thanks of the Commons . The works of Sprat , besides his few poems , are , The History of the Royal Society , The Life of Cowley , The Answer to Sorbière , The History of the Ryehouse ...
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