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... passage in question , which referred to that writer's censure of the " Da- mon , " one of the public critics remarked , " Here , however , we must impeach the bio- a grapher of mistake or lapse of memory in quoting PREFACE. ...
... passage in question , which referred to that writer's censure of the " Da- mon , " one of the public critics remarked , " Here , however , we must impeach the bio- a grapher of mistake or lapse of memory in quoting PREFACE. ...
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... passages , of vigorous and original thought , to assert that I have never yet read one of his productions with unmingled or even with prevailing plea- sure ; if this I say be a crime in me , I cannot hesitate to avow it , and I must ...
... passages , of vigorous and original thought , to assert that I have never yet read one of his productions with unmingled or even with prevailing plea- sure ; if this I say be a crime in me , I cannot hesitate to avow it , and I must ...
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... passages , indeed , he has been pleased to couple my name , as a writer , with some civil epithets : but at the same time he has prudently guarded against any possible excitement of my vanity , by throwing me into company , not of a ...
... passages , indeed , he has been pleased to couple my name , as a writer , with some civil epithets : but at the same time he has prudently guarded against any possible excitement of my vanity , by throwing me into company , not of a ...
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... passages then , in the present life of Mil- should be noticed by the reader for pe- culiar deficiency in composition or in spirit , as he pronounces their merited condemnation let him be told that they were written by a father who ...
... passages then , in the present life of Mil- should be noticed by the reader for pe- culiar deficiency in composition or in spirit , as he pronounces their merited condemnation let him be told that they were written by a father who ...
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... passage in which this second tutor is mentioned , and , with a few remarks on it , will show the little credit to which it is entitled , and consequently the propriety with which it was formerly disregarded by A. Wood and lately by ...
... passage in which this second tutor is mentioned , and , with a few remarks on it , will show the little credit to which it is entitled , and consequently the propriety with which it was formerly disregarded by A. Wood and lately by ...
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