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Page 44
... attention in the descriptive department . Boileau , though a host in himself , does not fairly belong to it ; and Le Mierre , notwithstanding the numerous beauties of his poem on Painting , for the chief of which , however , he is ...
... attention in the descriptive department . Boileau , though a host in himself , does not fairly belong to it ; and Le Mierre , notwithstanding the numerous beauties of his poem on Painting , for the chief of which , however , he is ...
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... attention , first , to the preliminary discourse by which it is introduced to the public ; secondly , to the general scope and execution of the poem itself , as a metrical composition ; and lastly , to the li- terary and scientific ...
... attention , first , to the preliminary discourse by which it is introduced to the public ; secondly , to the general scope and execution of the poem itself , as a metrical composition ; and lastly , to the li- terary and scientific ...
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... attention might not have led our author to a much neater and compacter arrangement than the present . The ac- tual state of modern physics , had he been sufficiently ac- quainted with their actual state , would have afforded him ...
... attention might not have led our author to a much neater and compacter arrangement than the present . The ac- tual state of modern physics , had he been sufficiently ac- quainted with their actual state , would have afforded him ...
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... attention ; though for what peculiar purpose , we are left to conjecture . After the R. R. prelate's decease , they became the property of the Rev. Edward Mar- shall , M. A. formerly of Clare - hall , Cambridge . This gen- tleman seems ...
... attention ; though for what peculiar purpose , we are left to conjecture . After the R. R. prelate's decease , they became the property of the Rev. Edward Mar- shall , M. A. formerly of Clare - hall , Cambridge . This gen- tleman seems ...
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... attention in the beginning of the last century . The principal champions were , on the one side Dr. Wake , * and on the other Dr. Atterbury . † The former , in his Authority of Christian Princes over their ecclesiastical Synods ...
... attention in the beginning of the last century . The principal champions were , on the one side Dr. Wake , * and on the other Dr. Atterbury . † The former , in his Authority of Christian Princes over their ecclesiastical Synods ...
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Page 108 - ... sun. And behold a man bent with age coming from the way of the wilderness leaning on a staff. And Abraham arose, and met him, and said unto him, ' Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shall arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.' And the man said, 'Nay; for I will abide under this tree.