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Page xiv
... another quickly enough - these biographies ; doing each one of them its bit of iconoclastic work : yet the reader never tires of them , nor , unless he is very young , does he wreak an empty wrath upon the xiv INTRODUCTION.
... another quickly enough - these biographies ; doing each one of them its bit of iconoclastic work : yet the reader never tires of them , nor , unless he is very young , does he wreak an empty wrath upon the xiv INTRODUCTION.
Page 11
... reader ( for his lineal pretensions , like his personal , favoured a little of the sinister bend ) -from the Plumers of Hertfordshire . So tradition gave him out ; and certain family features not a little sanctioned the opinion ...
... reader ( for his lineal pretensions , like his personal , favoured a little of the sinister bend ) -from the Plumers of Hertfordshire . So tradition gave him out ; and certain family features not a little sanctioned the opinion ...
Page 12
... reader to the top of his bent ; -else could I omit that strange creature Woollett , who existed in trying the question , and bought litigations ? -and still stranger , in- imitable , solemn Hepworth , from whose gravity Newton might ...
... reader to the top of his bent ; -else could I omit that strange creature Woollett , who existed in trying the question , and bought litigations ? -and still stranger , in- imitable , solemn Hepworth , from whose gravity Newton might ...
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... Reader , who is Elia ? Because in my last I tried to divert thee with some half - forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set me down in your ...
... Reader , who is Elia ? Because in my last I tried to divert thee with some half - forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set me down in your ...
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... reader , he is on Mount Tabor — or Parnassus- -or CO- sphered with Platoor , with Harrington , framing " immortal commonwealths " devising some plan of amelioration to thy country , or thy species per- adventure meditating some ...
... reader , he is on Mount Tabor — or Parnassus- -or CO- sphered with Platoor , with Harrington , framing " immortal commonwealths " devising some plan of amelioration to thy country , or thy species per- adventure meditating some ...
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