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... character concur to excite in the same moment our respect and our pity , I have been censured with some degree of harshness by a writer , of whose conduct to me in other respects I feel no reason to com- plain . The intellectual power ...
... character concur to excite in the same moment our respect and our pity , I have been censured with some degree of harshness by a writer , of whose conduct to me in other respects I feel no reason to com- plain . The intellectual power ...
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... my conviction of the atrocity of his conduct , to one of the most perfect characters which is to be found in the page of biography , I have not erased . a с syllable respecting him , and have felt more inclined to PREFACE . 17.
... my conviction of the atrocity of his conduct , to one of the most perfect characters which is to be found in the page of biography , I have not erased . a с syllable respecting him , and have felt more inclined to PREFACE . 17.
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... character , I under- took , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work . Unacquainted with the general progress of the publication , with which my biography was to be con- nected , I already looked forward to its ...
... character , I under- took , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work . Unacquainted with the general progress of the publication , with which my biography was to be con- nected , I already looked forward to its ...
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... character of our great writer , which would have done credit to the virulence of his own age . We have seen a new Salmasius , unimpelled by those motives which actuated the hireling of Charles , re- vive in Johnson ; and have beheld the ...
... character of our great writer , which would have done credit to the virulence of his own age . We have seen a new Salmasius , unimpelled by those motives which actuated the hireling of Charles , re- vive in Johnson ; and have beheld the ...
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... characters of the Lady and the two Brothers were repre- sented by the lady Alice Egerton , then about thirteen years of age , and her two brothers , lord Brackley and the Hon . Thomas Egerton , who were still younger . The story of this ...
... characters of the Lady and the two Brothers were repre- sented by the lady Alice Egerton , then about thirteen years of age , and her two brothers , lord Brackley and the Hon . Thomas Egerton , who were still younger . The story of this ...
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