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... circumstances not favourable to its perfec- tion , I was fearful that it might be found , on a revision , not only faulty in the substance and the mode , but deficient also in the just measure of its information . Its demand however for ...
... circumstances not favourable to its perfec- tion , I was fearful that it might be found , on a revision , not only faulty in the substance and the mode , but deficient also in the just measure of its information . Its demand however for ...
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... circumstance , from the very partial re- gard with which this Life of Milton has been honoured by a WILLIAM GIFFORD , a SAMUEL PARR , and a CHARLES Fox . To the last my voice cannot now reach ; and to the first I have already ...
... circumstance , from the very partial re- gard with which this Life of Milton has been honoured by a WILLIAM GIFFORD , a SAMUEL PARR , and a CHARLES Fox . To the last my voice cannot now reach ; and to the first I have already ...
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... . or acquaintance some of the first scholars and geniuses of the age : but of those , whose abi- lity , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its THE FIRST EDITION . 29 but one blow dissolved the charm, broke the ...
... . or acquaintance some of the first scholars and geniuses of the age : but of those , whose abi- lity , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its THE FIRST EDITION . 29 but one blow dissolved the charm, broke the ...
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Charles Symmons. lity , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its co - operation , would have imparted ornament and value to my production , my obligations for effective aid are limited to one . By the reverend FRANCIS WRANG- HAM ...
Charles Symmons. lity , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its co - operation , would have imparted ornament and value to my production , my obligations for effective aid are limited to one . By the reverend FRANCIS WRANG- HAM ...
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... circumstances . Under the constant pressure of a profession , peculi- arly unfavourable to the cultivation of liberal knowledge or the elegant arts , his classi- cal acquirements seem to have been con- siderable ; and such was his ...
... circumstances . Under the constant pressure of a profession , peculi- arly unfavourable to the cultivation of liberal knowledge or the elegant arts , his classi- cal acquirements seem to have been con- siderable ; and such was his ...
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