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... honours of my life , and a much greater refpect to Truth than to him or any man living , ingag'd me in Enquiries , of which the inclos'd Notes are the fruit . I perceiv'd , that most of these authors had been ( doubtlefs very wifely ) ...
... honours of my life , and a much greater refpect to Truth than to him or any man living , ingag'd me in Enquiries , of which the inclos'd Notes are the fruit . I perceiv'd , that most of these authors had been ( doubtlefs very wifely ) ...
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... honour Bad Men , long before he had either leisure or inclina- tion to call them Bad Writers : and fome had been fuch old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their perfons as well as their flanders , till they were pleas'd to revive ...
... honour Bad Men , long before he had either leisure or inclina- tion to call them Bad Writers : and fome had been fuch old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their perfons as well as their flanders , till they were pleas'd to revive ...
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... honour , not to have written a line of any man , which thro ' Guilt , thro ' Shame , or thro ' Fear , thro ' variety of Fortune , or change of Interefts , he was ever unwilling to own . I fhall conclude with remarking what a pleasure it ...
... honour , not to have written a line of any man , which thro ' Guilt , thro ' Shame , or thro ' Fear , thro ' variety of Fortune , or change of Interefts , he was ever unwilling to own . I fhall conclude with remarking what a pleasure it ...
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... honour of our language , it has " been taught to exprefs with elegance the greatest of their Poets in each . nation . " the illiterate among our countrymen may " learn to judge from Dryden's Virgil , of the " moft perfect Epic ...
... honour of our language , it has " been taught to exprefs with elegance the greatest of their Poets in each . nation . " the illiterate among our countrymen may " learn to judge from Dryden's Virgil , of the " moft perfect Epic ...
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... honour'd commands for the same , and that they are introduc'd not as witneffes in the controverfy , but as witneffes that cannot be controverted ; not to difpute , but to decide . Certain it is , that dividing our writers in- to two ...
... honour'd commands for the same , and that they are introduc'd not as witneffes in the controverfy , but as witneffes that cannot be controverted ; not to difpute , but to decide . Certain it is , that dividing our writers in- to two ...
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