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... Court of Seffion 164 in Scotland , on Literary Pro- perty , 90 DEFENCE of the Confiderations on Subfcriptions , 463 DICKENSON's Effay on the Power of Great Britain over the Colo- nies , DOBBS's Patriot King , a Tragedy , 390 484 157 ...
... Court of Seffion 164 in Scotland , on Literary Pro- perty , 90 DEFENCE of the Confiderations on Subfcriptions , 463 DICKENSON's Effay on the Power of Great Britain over the Colo- nies , DOBBS's Patriot King , a Tragedy , 390 484 157 ...
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... court of Auguftus , where , if ever the defire of pleafing animated you , it must make you exert all the means of doing it . You will fee there , full as well , I dare fay , as Horace did at Rome , how ftates are defended by arms ...
... court of Auguftus , where , if ever the defire of pleafing animated you , it must make you exert all the means of doing it . You will fee there , full as well , I dare fay , as Horace did at Rome , how ftates are defended by arms ...
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... court of equity it is one as it is . I could expatiate as much upon all his different works , but that I fhould exceed the bounds of a letter , and run into a differtation . How delightful is his History of that Northern Brute , the ...
... court of equity it is one as it is . I could expatiate as much upon all his different works , but that I fhould exceed the bounds of a letter , and run into a differtation . How delightful is his History of that Northern Brute , the ...
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... court , before the grand front of this fuperb mansion , is a granite column , with a ftatue of Venus on the top of it ; both purchased from the Arundel collection . • Mr. Evelyn , who bought them at Rome for Lord Arundel , was told by ...
... court , before the grand front of this fuperb mansion , is a granite column , with a ftatue of Venus on the top of it ; both purchased from the Arundel collection . • Mr. Evelyn , who bought them at Rome for Lord Arundel , was told by ...
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... court of William the Con- queror +4 Mr. Warton has , in the firft fection of his hiftory , prefented us with a great variety of extracts from the Norman - Saxon poetry , in which we may trace the origin and structure of many modern ...
... court of William the Con- queror +4 Mr. Warton has , in the firft fection of his hiftory , prefented us with a great variety of extracts from the Norman - Saxon poetry , in which we may trace the origin and structure of many modern ...
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Page 536 - Chose admirable ! la religion chrétienne, qui ne semble avoir d'objet que la félicité de l'autre vie, fait encore notre bonheur dans celle-ci.
Page 271 - And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
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Page 192 - Or scorch'd on rocks, he pines from day to day; But science gives the word; and lo! he braves The surge and tempest, lighted by her ray, And to a happier land wafts merrily away.
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