The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: To which are Prefixed Short Sketches of the ... Author's Family, and Also of His Life, Volumes 1-2T. Cadell, 1793 - English literature |
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... first was printed in a thin fmall octavo ; the fecond , in two fmall volumes octavo ; and the third and last was printed in the year 1770 , in one large octavo volume , containing much more than either of the former , The name of the ...
... first was printed in a thin fmall octavo ; the fecond , in two fmall volumes octavo ; and the third and last was printed in the year 1770 , in one large octavo volume , containing much more than either of the former , The name of the ...
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... he conti- nued fome time , who , after he had taught • Taciti Dialogus de Oratoribus . Brotier's edi- tion , quarto , Paris , 1771 , vol . iv . page 151 . him the first rudiments of language , and of fuch him XX SKETCHES OF THE LIFE.
... he conti- nued fome time , who , after he had taught • Taciti Dialogus de Oratoribus . Brotier's edi- tion , quarto , Paris , 1771 , vol . iv . page 151 . him the first rudiments of language , and of fuch him XX SKETCHES OF THE LIFE.
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... first rudiments of language , and of fuch branches of knowledge as were proper for his age , was called off to pursuits that promifed him greater advantages than he could expect to derive from his fole at- tention to the education of ...
... first rudiments of language , and of fuch branches of knowledge as were proper for his age , was called off to pursuits that promifed him greater advantages than he could expect to derive from his fole at- tention to the education of ...
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... first part of their lives in the numerous foci- eties of youths , many of whom are after- wards to act confiderable parts on the great ftage of the world . Notwithstand- ing the want of thefe incitements , which in a private education ...
... first part of their lives in the numerous foci- eties of youths , many of whom are after- wards to act confiderable parts on the great ftage of the world . Notwithstand- ing the want of thefe incitements , which in a private education ...
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... first to Mary the fole daughter of colonel Soame , of Dereham in Norfolk ; who dying without iffue , he afterwards married Elizabeth the daughter of Henry Grey , Efq . of Hack- ney , ney , in the county of Middlesex , who fur- xxvi ...
... first to Mary the fole daughter of colonel Soame , of Dereham in Norfolk ; who dying without iffue , he afterwards married Elizabeth the daughter of Henry Grey , Efq . of Hack- ney , ney , in the county of Middlesex , who fur- xxvi ...
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