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... should be remember'd , and the Crime forgotten . In fome Articles , it was thought fufficient barely to tranfcribe from Jacob , Curl , and other writers of their own rank , who were much better acquainted with them than any of the ...
... should be remember'd , and the Crime forgotten . In fome Articles , it was thought fufficient barely to tranfcribe from Jacob , Curl , and other writers of their own rank , who were much better acquainted with them than any of the ...
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... should still have been filent , if either I had feen any Inclination in my friend to be ferious with fuch accufers , or if they had only attack'd his writings : fince whoever publihes , puts himself on his tryal by his country . But ...
... should still have been filent , if either I had feen any Inclination in my friend to be ferious with fuch accufers , or if they had only attack'd his writings : fince whoever publihes , puts himself on his tryal by his country . But ...
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... should Folly or Dulness , which are ftill more involuntary , nay as much fo as perfonal deformity . But even this will not help them : Deformity becomes the ob- ject of ridicule when a man fets up for being handfome : and fo muft ...
... should Folly or Dulness , which are ftill more involuntary , nay as much fo as perfonal deformity . But even this will not help them : Deformity becomes the ob- ject of ridicule when a man fets up for being handfome : and fo muft ...
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... should fame to thefe meer vocals give ; Pope , more than we can offer , fhould receive : For when fome gliding river is his theme , His lines run smoother than the smootheft ftream , & c . ( a ) Commentary on the Sco . 1721 , p . 97 ...
... should fame to thefe meer vocals give ; Pope , more than we can offer , fhould receive : For when fome gliding river is his theme , His lines run smoother than the smootheft ftream , & c . ( a ) Commentary on the Sco . 1721 , p . 97 ...
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... should ven- " ture to affure him , that the PEOPLE of " ENGLAND had made fuch a choice- " The reader would either believe me a ma- " licious enemy , and flanderer ; or that the " reign of the last ( Queen Ann's ) Ministry , " was defign ...
... should ven- " ture to affure him , that the PEOPLE of " ENGLAND had made fuch a choice- " The reader would either believe me a ma- " licious enemy , and flanderer ; or that the " reign of the last ( Queen Ann's ) Ministry , " was defign ...
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