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Page 21
... perfection of human na- ture , and is the ftanding example , as well as the great guide and inftructor , of those who receive his doctrines . Though these two heads cannot be too much infifted upon , I fhall but just mention them ...
... perfection of human na- ture , and is the ftanding example , as well as the great guide and inftructor , of those who receive his doctrines . Though these two heads cannot be too much infifted upon , I fhall but just mention them ...
Page 45
... perfection , as well as for that generous approbation he lately gave to an opera of our own country , in which the compofer . endeavoured to do juftice to the beauty of the words , by following that noble example which has been fet him ...
... perfection , as well as for that generous approbation he lately gave to an opera of our own country , in which the compofer . endeavoured to do juftice to the beauty of the words , by following that noble example which has been fet him ...
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... perfection of an accomplished As this word arifes very often in conversa- tion , I fhall endeavour to give fome account of it , and to lay down rules how we may know whether we are poffeffed of it , and how we may acquire that fine ...
... perfection of an accomplished As this word arifes very often in conversa- tion , I fhall endeavour to give fome account of it , and to lay down rules how we may know whether we are poffeffed of it , and how we may acquire that fine ...
Page 60
... perfection , that , after having tasted ten different kinds of tea , he would diftinguifh , without feeing the colour of it , the particular fort which was offer- ed him ; and not only fo , but any two forts of them that were mixed ...
... perfection , that , after having tasted ten different kinds of tea , he would diftinguifh , without feeing the colour of it , the particular fort which was offer- ed him ; and not only fo , but any two forts of them that were mixed ...
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... perfection are wholly void of this . One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has affured me , that the greatest pleasure he took in reading Virgil , was in examining Eneas his voyage by the map ; as I queftion not but many a ...
... perfection are wholly void of this . One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has affured me , that the greatest pleasure he took in reading Virgil , was in examining Eneas his voyage by the map ; as I queftion not but many a ...
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