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... himself so expert a writer , that ⚫he took in bufinefs , and earned fome pence by hackney - writ- ing . And thus , by degrees , he pushed his faculties , and fell to forms ; and , by books that were lent him , became an ex- ' quifite ...
... himself so expert a writer , that ⚫he took in bufinefs , and earned fome pence by hackney - writ- ing . And thus , by degrees , he pushed his faculties , and fell to forms ; and , by books that were lent him , became an ex- ' quifite ...
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... himself has thought fit to give , in his life of the Earl of Rochefter , where may be seen a Latin poem upon Nothing , written by Pafferat ; for the infertion whereof he had , as it is faid , no other aid than his own recollection . How ...
... himself has thought fit to give , in his life of the Earl of Rochefter , where may be seen a Latin poem upon Nothing , written by Pafferat ; for the infertion whereof he had , as it is faid , no other aid than his own recollection . How ...
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... himself was ever an eye - witness to them . The infcription further declares her to have been of the family of Jarvis , and gives colour to a fuppofition that he was either a fifter or other rela- tion of the Jarvis above - mentioned ...
... himself was ever an eye - witness to them . The infcription further declares her to have been of the family of Jarvis , and gives colour to a fuppofition that he was either a fifter or other rela- tion of the Jarvis above - mentioned ...
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... himself , at his house , defcribing it near Lichfield . * That this notification failed of its end , we can scarce wonder , if we reflect , that he was little more than twenty - feven years of age when he published it , and that he had ...
... himself , at his house , defcribing it near Lichfield . * That this notification failed of its end , we can scarce wonder , if we reflect , that he was little more than twenty - feven years of age when he published it , and that he had ...
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... himself to studies of greater importance , and before the publication of the Examen of the Effay on Man , had made himself known , aș an original thinker , by his Divine Legation of Mofes , a work which , as it met with great oppofition ...
... himself to studies of greater importance , and before the publication of the Examen of the Effay on Man , had made himself known , aș an original thinker , by his Divine Legation of Mofes , a work which , as it met with great oppofition ...
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Page 350 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 299 - ... representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other...
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Page 519 - From zeal or malice now no more we dread, For English vengeance wars not with the dead, A generous foe regards with pitying eye The man whom fate has laid where all must lie. To wit, reviving from its author's dust, Be kind, ye judges, or at least be just : Let no renewed hostilities invade Th' oblivious grave's inviolable shade.
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Page 198 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
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Page 557 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 175 - The books he used for this purpose were what he had in his own collection, a copious but a miserably ragged one, and all such as he could borrow; which latter, if ever they came back to those that lent them, were so defaced as to be scarce worth owning, and yet, some of his friends were glad to receive and entertain them as curiosities.
Page 126 - He will learn, sir, that to accuse and prove are very different, and that reproaches unsupported by evidence affect only the character of him that utters them. Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young...