The Spectator, Volume 4J.M. Dent & Company, 1923 |
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... Learning or Genius , who are often too full to be exact , and therefore chuse to throw down their Pearls in Heaps before the Reader , rather than be at the Pains of stringing them , Method is of Advantage to a Work , both in respect to ...
... Learning or Genius , who are often too full to be exact , and therefore chuse to throw down their Pearls in Heaps before the Reader , rather than be at the Pains of stringing them , Method is of Advantage to a Work , both in respect to ...
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... Learning , or that he has not a great Deal more , With these Qualifica tions Tom sets up for a Free - thinker , finds a great many Things to blame in the Constitution of his Country , and gives shrewd Intimations that he does not ...
... Learning , or that he has not a great Deal more , With these Qualifica tions Tom sets up for a Free - thinker , finds a great many Things to blame in the Constitution of his Country , and gives shrewd Intimations that he does not ...
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... Learning , it will from henceforth happen that they shall be freed from the Trouble , and the World from useless Volumes , This Project will be a Registry to which Posterity may have Recourse for the clearing such obscure Passages as ...
... Learning , it will from henceforth happen that they shall be freed from the Trouble , and the World from useless Volumes , This Project will be a Registry to which Posterity may have Recourse for the clearing such obscure Passages as ...
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... learning of No. 478 , Etymology , which might perswade the Age to come , Monday , that the Farthingal was worn for Cheapness , or the Sept. 8 , Furbeloe for Warmth , Fourthly , Whereas they who are old themselves , have often a way of ...
... learning of No. 478 , Etymology , which might perswade the Age to come , Monday , that the Farthingal was worn for Cheapness , or the Sept. 8 , Furbeloe for Warmth , Fourthly , Whereas they who are old themselves , have often a way of ...
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... Learning , they are frequently cor rected with Stripes ; but one of our famous Lawyers is of opinion , That this ought to be used sparingly . As I remember those are his very Words ; but as it is proper to draw some spiritual Use out of ...
... Learning , they are frequently cor rected with Stripes ; but one of our famous Lawyers is of opinion , That this ought to be used sparingly . As I remember those are his very Words ; but as it is proper to draw some spiritual Use out of ...
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