Biography of the Blind: Or the Lives of Such as Have Distinguished Themselves as Poets, Philosophers, Artists |
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... began to assume a more formidable aspect . The insurgents were soon embodied throughout all the Colonies , and the insur- rection became general . Between them and the loyal party no neutrality was allowed , and every man was under the ...
... began to assume a more formidable aspect . The insurgents were soon embodied throughout all the Colonies , and the insur- rection became general . Between them and the loyal party no neutrality was allowed , and every man was under the ...
Page xxvii
... began to pay some attention to books ; but my first course of reading was , indeed , of a very indifferent description , as I was obliged to lis- ten to what was most convenient . However , I made the best of what I heard , and in a ...
... began to pay some attention to books ; but my first course of reading was , indeed , of a very indifferent description , as I was obliged to lis- ten to what was most convenient . However , I made the best of what I heard , and in a ...
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... began heartily to bless themselves . As their astonishment , however , subsided , the hospi- tality of their Irish hearts began to display itself ; for , on discovering that I was only a mortal being , and partook of the same nature and ...
... began heartily to bless themselves . As their astonishment , however , subsided , the hospi- tality of their Irish hearts began to display itself ; for , on discovering that I was only a mortal being , and partook of the same nature and ...
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... began to fail him ; but that he laboured under this privation when he composed his Odyssey , has never been questioned . In the eighth book of that poem , in the person of Demodocus , he has described his own helpless situa- tion B 3 OF ...
... began to fail him ; but that he laboured under this privation when he composed his Odyssey , has never been questioned . In the eighth book of that poem , in the person of Demodocus , he has described his own helpless situa- tion B 3 OF ...
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... began to write verses . Among these early essays of his genius , there was one ad- dressed to a little girl whom he had offended , which is preserved in his works , and is not perhaps inferior to any of the premature compositions of ...
... began to write verses . Among these early essays of his genius , there was one ad- dressed to a little girl whom he had offended , which is preserved in his works , and is not perhaps inferior to any of the premature compositions of ...
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