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... reader's uninfluenced determination . Milton entered in Feb. 1624-5 , and took his first de- gree in Jan. 1628-9 . Exclusively , however , of the term in which he entered and of that in which he took his degree , it was necessary for ...
... reader's uninfluenced determination . Milton entered in Feb. 1624-5 , and took his first de- gree in Jan. 1628-9 . Exclusively , however , of the term in which he entered and of that in which he took his degree , it was necessary for ...
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... reader's participation . The little new matter which I have obtained , has been derived from the kindness of Mr. Bind- ley , the first commissioner of the Stamp Of fice : a gentleman who delights in the com- munication of the large and ...
... reader's participation . The little new matter which I have obtained , has been derived from the kindness of Mr. Bind- ley , the first commissioner of the Stamp Of fice : a gentleman who delights in the com- munication of the large and ...
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... readers will not perhaps complain if while their understandings are not abused , their fancies should be entertained . Inter- vening , indeed , between the true and the false there are the several degrees of the better and the worse ...
... readers will not perhaps complain if while their understandings are not abused , their fancies should be entertained . Inter- vening , indeed , between the true and the false there are the several degrees of the better and the worse ...
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... readers what I reject before it drops upon the paper and what is subsequently withdrawn by my prudence , they would per- haps pardon the errors which I have com- mitted , for those which , under the impulse of temptation and with ...
... readers what I reject before it drops upon the paper and what is subsequently withdrawn by my prudence , they would per- haps pardon the errors which I have com- mitted , for those which , under the impulse of temptation and with ...
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... readers : but I translated also , as I will ingenuously confess , or I would not have translated at all , without a conscious- ness of inferiority to the writer who had pre- ceded me on the ground . Having published , however , in the ...
... readers : but I translated also , as I will ingenuously confess , or I would not have translated at all , without a conscious- ness of inferiority to the writer who had pre- ceded me on the ground . Having published , however , in the ...
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