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... translator of Afchylus . Here Ro- binfon acquired a knowledge of the French tongue , and a better acquaintance with claffical literature , than boys ufually at- tain at an early period . He was origi- nally defigned for the University ...
... translator of Afchylus . Here Ro- binfon acquired a knowledge of the French tongue , and a better acquaintance with claffical literature , than boys ufually at- tain at an early period . He was origi- nally defigned for the University ...
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... translating , for that , one pof- felfed of fuch talents for original compo- fition , was not fit for a tranflator . Such were the reftimonies to Robinfon's attain ments when living and , after his death , three of the moft eminent , in ...
... translating , for that , one pof- felfed of fuch talents for original compo- fition , was not fit for a tranflator . Such were the reftimonies to Robinfon's attain ments when living and , after his death , three of the moft eminent , in ...
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... translation of which will be published early in the pre- fent month , from a copy tranfmitted from the author . M. GUER has juft published at Paris a work entitled Confiderations fur les Fi- nances , the object of which is to fhew the ...
... translation of which will be published early in the pre- fent month , from a copy tranfmitted from the author . M. GUER has juft published at Paris a work entitled Confiderations fur les Fi- nances , the object of which is to fhew the ...
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... translated ; " So Condamine , that child of endless whim , Royal Academician is become : But Condamine is deaf , - ' tis well for him , - It would be well for them , if he were dumb ! " The difputes at Somerset House had their origin in ...
... translated ; " So Condamine , that child of endless whim , Royal Academician is become : But Condamine is deaf , - ' tis well for him , - It would be well for them , if he were dumb ! " The difputes at Somerset House had their origin in ...
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... translation is paraphraftical and inaccu- rate . Besides this , it is added , that one of the Monthly Reviewers profeffed to have examined the Sloanian manufcript now in the British Museum , and believed it not to be of Kempter's hand ...
... translation is paraphraftical and inaccu- rate . Besides this , it is added , that one of the Monthly Reviewers profeffed to have examined the Sloanian manufcript now in the British Museum , and believed it not to be of Kempter's hand ...
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Page 340 - I have not leisure to write much. But I could chide thee that in many of thy Letters thou writest to me, That I should not be unmindful of thee and thy little ones. Truly, if I love you not too well, I think I err not on the other hand much. Thou art dearer to me than any creature; let that suffice.
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Page 56 - Bibliographical Dictionary, containing a Chronological Account, alphabetically arranged, of the most curious, scarce, useful, and important books, in all Departments of Literature, which have been published in Latin, Greek, Coptic, Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Chaldee, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, &c, from the Infancy of Printing to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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Page 37 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 347 - The natural proofs of a future state appear to be so much invalidated by the rejection of a separate principle, the seat of thought, which may escape from the perishing body to which it is temporarily united, that he seemed to have been employed in demolishing one of the great pillars upon which religion is founded. It is enough here to observe, that in Dr Priestley's mind, the deficiency of these natural proofs only operated as an additional argument in favour of revelation ; the necessity of which,...
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Page 350 - On Monday morning, the 6th of February, on being asked how he did, he answered, in a faint voice, that he had no pain; but appeared fainting away gradually. About eight o'clock he desired to have three pamphlets, which had been looked out by his directions the evening before.
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