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... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
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... learning , talents , and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under their hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the ...
... learning , talents , and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under their hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the ...
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... , a native of Derbyshire , of obscure extraction , who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer . His 1 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. $ Post of Ty of Lichfield shewing the House in INTRODUCTORY 7.
... , a native of Derbyshire , of obscure extraction , who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer . His 1 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. $ Post of Ty of Lichfield shewing the House in INTRODUCTORY 7.
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... learning all over this diocese , and advanceth knowledge to its just height ; all the Clergy here are his pupils , and suck all they have from him ; Allen cannot make a warrant without his precedent , nor our quondam John Evans draw a ...
... learning all over this diocese , and advanceth knowledge to its just height ; all the Clergy here are his pupils , and suck all they have from him ; Allen cannot make a warrant without his precedent , nor our quondam John Evans draw a ...
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... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years , he told me , was not works of mere amusement , " not voyages and travels , but all ...
... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years , he told me , was not works of mere amusement , " not voyages and travels , but all ...
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