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Page 41
... taken up an affectation to white and red , and is now diftinguished by the cha- racter of the lady that paints fo well . In a word , could the world be reformed to the obedience of that famed dictate , Follow Nature , which the oracle ...
... taken up an affectation to white and red , and is now diftinguished by the cha- racter of the lady that paints fo well . In a word , could the world be reformed to the obedience of that famed dictate , Follow Nature , which the oracle ...
Page 75
... taken care of that lie between them , if the na- tural embroidery of the meadows were help'd and im- proved by fome fmall additions of art , and the feveral rows of hedges fet off by trees and flowers , that the foil was capable of ...
... taken care of that lie between them , if the na- tural embroidery of the meadows were help'd and im- proved by fome fmall additions of art , and the feveral rows of hedges fet off by trees and flowers , that the foil was capable of ...
Page 188
... taken much liberty with this learned doctor , I must make up all I have faid by repeating what he feems to be in earnest in , and honestly promise to those who will not receive him as a great man ; to wit , That from eight to twelve ...
... taken much liberty with this learned doctor , I must make up all I have faid by repeating what he feems to be in earnest in , and honestly promise to those who will not receive him as a great man ; to wit , That from eight to twelve ...
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