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... performed without any higher quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience , and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution . Whether this opinion , so long transmitted , and so widely propagated , had its ...
... performed without any higher quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience , and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution . Whether this opinion , so long transmitted , and so widely propagated , had its ...
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... performed without any higher quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience , and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution . Whether this opinion , so long transmitted , and so widely propagated , had its ...
... performed without any higher quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience , and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution . Whether this opinion , so long transmitted , and so widely propagated , had its ...
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... performed , it will be necessary to enquire how our primitives are to be deduced from foreign languages , which may be often very successfully performed by the assistance of our own etymologists . This search will give occasion to many ...
... performed , it will be necessary to enquire how our primitives are to be deduced from foreign languages , which may be often very successfully performed by the assistance of our own etymologists . This search will give occasion to many ...
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... performed , it will be equivalent to the proposal made by Boileau to the academicians , that they should review all their polite writers , and correct such impurities as might be found in them , that their authority might not contribute ...
... performed , it will be equivalent to the proposal made by Boileau to the academicians , that they should review all their polite writers , and correct such impurities as might be found in them , that their authority might not contribute ...
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... perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ; these might have been omitted very often with little inconve- nience , but I would not so far indulge my vanity as to decline this confession ...
... perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ; these might have been omitted very often with little inconve- nience , but I would not so far indulge my vanity as to decline this confession ...
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