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... wishes to serve the public , and to promote the cause of literature . The labour of almost three years is now submitted to his judgment ; for which though I have not conscious dignity enough to dismiss it without any apprehension , I ...
... wishes to serve the public , and to promote the cause of literature . The labour of almost three years is now submitted to his judgment ; for which though I have not conscious dignity enough to dismiss it without any apprehension , I ...
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... wish therefore my readers to understand , that what I shall produce will be derived from the same authority , with a few additional remarks suggested by passages produced in the Bibliotheca Græca of Fabricius , or the Prolegomena of ...
... wish therefore my readers to understand , that what I shall produce will be derived from the same authority , with a few additional remarks suggested by passages produced in the Bibliotheca Græca of Fabricius , or the Prolegomena of ...
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... wish him to remember this . — I would desire him also to consider , that it was my duty to make that perspicuous to the less learned reader , which might have been conveyed in fewer terms to the apprehensions of the more learned or the ...
... wish him to remember this . — I would desire him also to consider , that it was my duty to make that perspicuous to the less learned reader , which might have been conveyed in fewer terms to the apprehensions of the more learned or the ...
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... wish for more . Plutarch himself , who has made the most violent attack on his veracity , allows him all the merit of beautiful composition . - Hayley . 4 In my version , as it now stands , I have not satisfied a friend , whose opinion ...
... wish for more . Plutarch himself , who has made the most violent attack on his veracity , allows him all the merit of beautiful composition . - Hayley . 4 In my version , as it now stands , I have not satisfied a friend , whose opinion ...
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... wish to appeal to our eyes for proof ; if an object of hearing , to our ears ; if of taste , smell , or touch , to the organs formed for such decision : and this is the sole ground of preference in any case , The remark of Horace rests ...
... wish to appeal to our eyes for proof ; if an object of hearing , to our ears ; if of taste , smell , or touch , to the organs formed for such decision : and this is the sole ground of preference in any case , The remark of Horace rests ...
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Page 71 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 242 - And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man." And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 420 - Hope, that glorious eminence, that " throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 142 - We will willingly give them." And they spread a garment and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
Page 244 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 82 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 185 - I am, and none else beside me ; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children :" but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children...
Page 303 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Page 333 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 82 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...