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I refer to Dr. Middleton , the truly learned , and every way excellent Bishop of Calcutta : " Qui laudibus amplis Ingenium celebrare meum , calamumque solebat , Calcar agens animo validum . Non omnia terrę Obruța !
I refer to Dr. Middleton , the truly learned , and every way excellent Bishop of Calcutta : " Qui laudibus amplis Ingenium celebrare meum , calamumque solebat , Calcar agens animo validum . Non omnia terrę Obruța !
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Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century , when the use of the Latin tongue was so general among learned men , that Erasmus is said to have forgotten his native language , yet in the present day it is not to ...
Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century , when the use of the Latin tongue was so general among learned men , that Erasmus is said to have forgotten his native language , yet in the present day it is not to ...
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... frequent laughter ; listening to a series of jests and humourous anecdotes , as when ( so to modernise the learned Saracen's meaning ) one man's droll story of an Irishman inevitably occasions another's droll story of a Scotchman ...
... frequent laughter ; listening to a series of jests and humourous anecdotes , as when ( so to modernise the learned Saracen's meaning ) one man's droll story of an Irishman inevitably occasions another's droll story of a Scotchman ...
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With one solitary exception in which my words were first misstated and then wantonly applied to an indiviܪ dual , I could never learn , that I had 54 Still less can I place these attacks to the ...
With one solitary exception in which my words were first misstated and then wantonly applied to an indiviܪ dual , I could never learn , that I had 54 Still less can I place these attacks to the ...
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dual , I could never learn , that I had excited the displeasure of any among my literary contemporaries . Having announced my intention to give a course of lectures on the characteristic merits and defects of English poetry in its ...
dual , I could never learn , that I had excited the displeasure of any among my literary contemporaries . Having announced my intention to give a course of lectures on the characteristic merits and defects of English poetry in its ...
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