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... same time , be faid that there are many paffages which confer equal and great honour on the heart that could conceive them , and on the head that could dictate them . ART . XXI . Memoirs of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Man ...
... same time , be faid that there are many paffages which confer equal and great honour on the heart that could conceive them , and on the head that could dictate them . ART . XXI . Memoirs of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Man ...
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... same time let us alter the laws and effects of light , " - would not the world have reason to conclude that his understanding was impaired ? Yet fuch is the logic , fuch the eloquence , of the revolution philofophers ! Societies , laws ...
... same time let us alter the laws and effects of light , " - would not the world have reason to conclude that his understanding was impaired ? Yet fuch is the logic , fuch the eloquence , of the revolution philofophers ! Societies , laws ...
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... same play , A.5 . fc . 5 . " What faults he made before the laft , I think , Might have found easy fines . " i . e . fines which were not coftly nor grievous.So likewife , Chaucer , in his Court of Love , ufes the word ; " Yet nere and ...
... same play , A.5 . fc . 5 . " What faults he made before the laft , I think , Might have found easy fines . " i . e . fines which were not coftly nor grievous.So likewife , Chaucer , in his Court of Love , ufes the word ; " Yet nere and ...
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... same- nefs of difcuffion ; and the paper on Kings is only remarkable for adding a new point to the old fable of the Frogs * . In the Effay on Language , Wit , and Humour , we learn that the defervedly celebrated tranflation of Hudibras ...
... same- nefs of difcuffion ; and the paper on Kings is only remarkable for adding a new point to the old fable of the Frogs * . In the Effay on Language , Wit , and Humour , we learn that the defervedly celebrated tranflation of Hudibras ...
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... same kind of deceit ? We might answer in the old adage , Nec lex eft juftior ulla , Quam necis artifices arte perire fua : but we may obferve that prudence and referve will , in thefe cafes , generally anfwer all the purposes of self ...
... same kind of deceit ? We might answer in the old adage , Nec lex eft juftior ulla , Quam necis artifices arte perire fua : but we may obferve that prudence and referve will , in thefe cafes , generally anfwer all the purposes of self ...
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