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... seem❜d but humanity to beftow a word or two upon each , just to tell what he was , what be writ , when he liv'd , or when he dÿ'd . If a word or two more are added upon the chief Offenders ; ' tis only as a paper pinn'd up- on the ...
... seem❜d but humanity to beftow a word or two upon each , just to tell what he was , what be writ , when he liv'd , or when he dÿ'd . If a word or two more are added upon the chief Offenders ; ' tis only as a paper pinn'd up- on the ...
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... seem to themselves if to none other . Forgive me therefore gentle reader , if ( following learned example ) I ever and anon become tediou's allow me to take the fame pain to find whe ther my author were good or bad , well or ill ...
... seem to themselves if to none other . Forgive me therefore gentle reader , if ( following learned example ) I ever and anon become tediou's allow me to take the fame pain to find whe ther my author were good or bad , well or ill ...
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... seem good . Sure it is , he is little favour'd of cer- tain authors ; whofe wrath is perillous : For one declares he ought to have a price fet on his head , and to be hunted down as wild beaft : Another exprefly , that it will be well ...
... seem good . Sure it is , he is little favour'd of cer- tain authors ; whofe wrath is perillous : For one declares he ought to have a price fet on his head , and to be hunted down as wild beaft : Another exprefly , that it will be well ...
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... seem to themfelves vastly great- er than it is , and is the prime motive of their fetting up in this fad and forry mer- chandize . The great power of these God- deffes acting in alliance ( whereof as the one is the mother of industry ...
... seem to themfelves vastly great- er than it is , and is the prime motive of their fetting up in this fad and forry mer- chandize . The great power of these God- deffes acting in alliance ( whereof as the one is the mother of industry ...
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... seems to deferve no other way better than his brethren , unlets we impute it to the hare he had in the Journals , cited among the Teftimonies of Authors prefixed to this work . • VERSE 108. Tibbald's monfter - breeding breaft , Sees ...
... seems to deferve no other way better than his brethren , unlets we impute it to the hare he had in the Journals , cited among the Teftimonies of Authors prefixed to this work . • VERSE 108. Tibbald's monfter - breeding breaft , Sees ...
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