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... answered , ' Ignorance , Madam , Ignorance [ H ] pure ignorance . ' His definition of Network , has been often quoted with sportive malignity , as obscuring a thing in itself very plain . But to these frivolous censures no other answer ...
... answered , ' Ignorance , Madam , Ignorance [ H ] pure ignorance . ' His definition of Network , has been often quoted with sportive malignity , as obscuring a thing in itself very plain . But to these frivolous censures no other answer ...
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... answer : ' TO MR . BURNEY , IN LYNNE , NORFOLK ' SIR , ' THAT I may shew myself sensible of your favours , and not commit the same fault a second time , I make haste to answer the letter which I received this morning . The truth is ...
... answer : ' TO MR . BURNEY , IN LYNNE , NORFOLK ' SIR , ' THAT I may shew myself sensible of your favours , and not commit the same fault a second time , I make haste to answer the letter which I received this morning . The truth is ...
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... answer till next day , when he would call again , and desired he might think of it . Sir Joshua answered that he was clear to give his opinion then , that there could be no objection to his receiving from the King a reward for literary ...
... answer till next day , when he would call again , and desired he might think of it . Sir Joshua answered that he was clear to give his opinion then , that there could be no objection to his receiving from the King a reward for literary ...
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