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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...complete were reprinted in 1725, in 3 vols. 8vo. As a writer, ' lord Brook says of him, " that his end was not writing, even while he wrote ; nor his knowledge...opinion, but in life and action, good and great." SPENCEtt. THE divine author of the Faery Queeri belongs rather to a poetical than a prose series of...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...complete were reprinted in 1725, in 3 vols. 8vo. As a writer, lord Brook says of him, " that his end was not writing, even while he wrote ; nor his knowledge...opinion, but in life and. action, good and great.'* SPENCEH. THE divine author of the Faery Queen belongs rather to a poetical than a prose series of writers...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...complete were reprinted in, 1725, in 3 vols. 8vo. As a writer, ' lord Brook says of him, " that his end was not writing, even while he wrote ; nor his knowledge...himself and others, not in words or opinion, but in life and7 action, good and great." SPENCER. THE divine author of the Faery Queen be(longs rather to a poetica}...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...complete were reprinted in 1725, in 3 vols. 8vo. As a writer, lord Brook says of him, " that his end was not writing, even while he wrote ; nor his knowledge...opinion, but in life and action, good and great." SPENCER. THE divine author of the "faery Queen belongs rather to a poetical than a prose series of...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...in it of justice, than such characters generally possess. — " His end was not writing, even when he wrote, nor his knowledge moulded for tables or schools: but both his wit and understanding beat upon his heart, to make himself and others not in words or opinion, but in life and action, good...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 2

Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...perhaps, in it of justice, than such characters generally possess. — " His end was not writing even when he wrote, nor his knowledge moulded for tables or schools : but both his wit and understanding beat upon his heart, to make himself and others not in words or opinion, but in life and action, good...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 2

1820 - 408 pages
...in it of justice, than such characters generally possess. — " His end was not writing, even when he wrote, nor his knowledge moulded for tables or schools: but both his wit and understanding beat upon his heart, to make himself and others not in words or opinion, but in life and action, good...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 502 pages
...perhaps, in it of justice, than such characters generally possess. — " His end was not writingeven when he wrote, nor his knowledge moulded for tables or schools : but both his wit and understanding beat upon his heart, to make himself and others not in words or opinion, but in life and action, good...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 2

Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...perhaps, in it of justice, than such characters generally possess. — " His end was not writing even when he wrote, nor his knowledge moulded for tables or schools : but both his wit and understanding beat upon his heart, to make himself and others not in words or opinion, but in life and action, good...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1829 - 652 pages
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