Works of the Author of the Pursuits of Literature: Consisting Of: I. Pursuits of Literature ... II. A Translation of the Passages ... Quoted in the Prefaces ... to the Pursuits of Literature. III. The Imperial Epistle from Kien Long, Emperor of China to Geo. III ... IV. The Shade of Alex. Pope, Esq. on the Banks of the Thames ...J. Milliken, 1799 |
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... whose zeal and folicitude , I speak ( from the printed accounts ) these fingular poems would never have appeared . He seemed to fay with juftice , Oro , miserere laborum Tantorum , miferere animi non digna ferentis . ( bb ) The edition ...
... whose zeal and folicitude , I speak ( from the printed accounts ) these fingular poems would never have appeared . He seemed to fay with juftice , Oro , miserere laborum Tantorum , miferere animi non digna ferentis . ( bb ) The edition ...
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... whose in- tegral works are loft for ever . At present it is troublesome even to read the remains of the laborious erudition of the Patriarch of Byzantium . ( 1796. ) ( p ) The tomb of Archilochus was placed on the sea shore , ( I think ...
... whose in- tegral works are loft for ever . At present it is troublesome even to read the remains of the laborious erudition of the Patriarch of Byzantium . ( 1796. ) ( p ) The tomb of Archilochus was placed on the sea shore , ( I think ...
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... whose tribunals he was not amenable ) was stimulated to pursue his researches into the origin and expedience of fuch government , and of fuch oppreffion , which , otherwife , he probably never would have difcuffed ; till he reasoned ...
... whose tribunals he was not amenable ) was stimulated to pursue his researches into the origin and expedience of fuch government , and of fuch oppreffion , which , otherwife , he probably never would have difcuffed ; till he reasoned ...
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... whose accuracy and extent of knowledge this coun- try is confiderably indebted . But this has nothing to do with his converfation . ( i ) Dr. Morofophos , the man of method , was rather trouble- fome to his friends on this subject of ...
... whose accuracy and extent of knowledge this coun- try is confiderably indebted . But this has nothing to do with his converfation . ( i ) Dr. Morofophos , the man of method , was rather trouble- fome to his friends on this subject of ...
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... whose digreffions from the exuberance of the best ju idical knowledge were illuminations ; whofe energies were oracles ; whofe conftancy of mind , was won into the pinnacle of our English forum at an inauspicious moment ; whofe ...
... whose digreffions from the exuberance of the best ju idical knowledge were illuminations ; whofe energies were oracles ; whofe conftancy of mind , was won into the pinnacle of our English forum at an inauspicious moment ; whofe ...
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