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Page 108
... less amusing indeed than own instinctive sagacity , or from a sin- poetry and criticism , but not less gular and unaccountable penetration , important . The extraordinary suc which at one glance sees all the in - cess of the sceptical ...
... less amusing indeed than own instinctive sagacity , or from a sin- poetry and criticism , but not less gular and unaccountable penetration , important . The extraordinary suc which at one glance sees all the in - cess of the sceptical ...
Page 118
... less a book , and , if possible , to raise my - pleasing , and consequently less use- self higher in the world . So that , ful . if I were now to accept preferment Most of these reasons were re- in the church , I should be apprehen ...
... less a book , and , if possible , to raise my - pleasing , and consequently less use- self higher in the world . So that , ful . if I were now to accept preferment Most of these reasons were re- in the church , I should be apprehen ...
Page 334
... less and less occasion for your dic- think it the duty of every man within tionary , as you become more ac- his reach to sit under his petty minis- quainted with the terms ; and , in the trations , and that whoever omits them mean time ...
... less and less occasion for your dic- think it the duty of every man within tionary , as you become more ac- his reach to sit under his petty minis- quainted with the terms ; and , in the trations , and that whoever omits them mean time ...
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