The London Magazine, Volume 8Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 |
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... speak it with correctness and facility . - Preface to a Key to the Greek Testament , executed under the immediate Direction of James Hamilton . - p . xii . This last sentence we have not been able to refrain from quoting , though we ...
... speak it with correctness and facility . - Preface to a Key to the Greek Testament , executed under the immediate Direction of James Hamilton . - p . xii . This last sentence we have not been able to refrain from quoting , though we ...
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... speak , a facility to write , a true judgment both of his own and other men's doings , what tongue soever he doth use . " The way is this : after the three concordances learned , as I touched before , let the master read unto him the ...
... speak , a facility to write , a true judgment both of his own and other men's doings , what tongue soever he doth use . " The way is this : after the three concordances learned , as I touched before , let the master read unto him the ...
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... speak to , was almost close to them ; though having watched long , and in vain , for their eyes , which were somehow or another always averted , she was forced to console herself as well as she could , by talking to her neighbour , the ...
... speak to , was almost close to them ; though having watched long , and in vain , for their eyes , which were somehow or another always averted , she was forced to console herself as well as she could , by talking to her neighbour , the ...
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... speak several sentences to Mrs. Oldbury , one of which actually was , " Is that pretty looking young woman with you , your niece ? " Mrs. Oldbury was charmed ; and beckoning her niece , she was presented to Lady Elizabeth in all due ...
... speak several sentences to Mrs. Oldbury , one of which actually was , " Is that pretty looking young woman with you , your niece ? " Mrs. Oldbury was charmed ; and beckoning her niece , she was presented to Lady Elizabeth in all due ...
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... speaking of , a man's state of informa- tion is clear . To read Kirby and Spence is exactly like putting your eyes to the glass of a show , a cosmorama , or any thing of the sort . To look in is to see a new world - to look away is to ...
... speaking of , a man's state of informa- tion is clear . To read Kirby and Spence is exactly like putting your eyes to the glass of a show , a cosmorama , or any thing of the sort . To look in is to see a new world - to look away is to ...
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