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... endeavour I have had the assistance not only of some of my particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the work with many valuable additions ...
... endeavour I have had the assistance not only of some of my particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the work with many valuable additions ...
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... endeavour , " says Dr. Warburton , " to give you what satisfaction - I can in any thing you want to be satis- fied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had ...
... endeavour , " says Dr. Warburton , " to give you what satisfaction - I can in any thing you want to be satis- fied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had ...
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... endeavour to record , and Nathanael , who died in his twenty - fifth year " . 8 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. h Nathanael was born in 1712 , and died in 1737. Their father , Michael Johnson , was born at Cubley in Derbyshire ...
... endeavour to record , and Nathanael , who died in his twenty - fifth year " . 8 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. h Nathanael was born in 1712 , and died in 1737. Their father , Michael Johnson , was born at Cubley in Derbyshire ...
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... endeavour to find out who this new author was . Mr. Richardson , after some inquiry , having informed him that he had dis- covered only that his name was Johnson , and that he was some obscure man , Pope said , He will soon be déterréh ...
... endeavour to find out who this new author was . Mr. Richardson , after some inquiry , having informed him that he had dis- covered only that his name was Johnson , and that he was some obscure man , Pope said , He will soon be déterréh ...
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... endeavour at rising in life . But such was his inflexible dignity of cha- racter , that he could not stoop to court the great ; without which , hardly any man has made his way to a high station . He could not expect to produce many such ...
... endeavour at rising in life . But such was his inflexible dignity of cha- racter , that he could not stoop to court the great ; without which , hardly any man has made his way to a high station . He could not expect to produce many such ...
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