Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, 3. ciltT. Davies, 1774 - 375 sayfa |
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... common Senfe and common Honefty , Names of greater Authority than that of Horace , who direct that no Man fhould Promise what he cannot perform . I do not mean to declare that this Volume has nothing New , or that the Labours of thofe ...
... common Senfe and common Honefty , Names of greater Authority than that of Horace , who direct that no Man fhould Promise what he cannot perform . I do not mean to declare that this Volume has nothing New , or that the Labours of thofe ...
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Samuel Johnson Thomas Davies. Common - places , ought not to boast himself as a great Benefactor to the studious World . C After a Preface of Boast , and a Letter of Flat- tery , in which he feems to imitate the Address of Horace in his ...
Samuel Johnson Thomas Davies. Common - places , ought not to boast himself as a great Benefactor to the studious World . C After a Preface of Boast , and a Letter of Flat- tery , in which he feems to imitate the Address of Horace in his ...
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... common to other Countries , had taken oppofite Sides . His Epithets are of the gaudy or hyperbolical Kind . The glorious News . - Eager Hopes and difmal Fears . Bleeding Rome - divine Laws and hallowed Customs -Mercilefs War - intenfe ...
... common to other Countries , had taken oppofite Sides . His Epithets are of the gaudy or hyperbolical Kind . The glorious News . - Eager Hopes and difmal Fears . Bleeding Rome - divine Laws and hallowed Customs -Mercilefs War - intenfe ...
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... common Friends , and particularly to the Reverend Mr. and his very agreeable Family , letting him know how fin- cerely glad I now am , that he did not accept my preffing Invitations of fettling here , offered him when I was last in ...
... common Friends , and particularly to the Reverend Mr. and his very agreeable Family , letting him know how fin- cerely glad I now am , that he did not accept my preffing Invitations of fettling here , offered him when I was last in ...
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... common Enemies and fworn Disturbers of Mankind , refolving that no Body fhall ever have any Enjoyment of Life , till they become their Subjects ; when it will be im- poffible they should have any . OBSER- OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE of ...
... common Enemies and fworn Disturbers of Mankind , refolving that no Body fhall ever have any Enjoyment of Life , till they become their Subjects ; when it will be im- poffible they should have any . OBSER- OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE of ...
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