An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 1Hunt and Clarke, 1826 - 438 pages |
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... sides , and on almost any occasion . In the month of December 1680 appeared one of the largest comets ever seen ; and as the world had not yet got rid of the ancient prejudice which deemed these bodies portentous of some dire calamity ...
... sides , and on almost any occasion . In the month of December 1680 appeared one of the largest comets ever seen ; and as the world had not yet got rid of the ancient prejudice which deemed these bodies portentous of some dire calamity ...
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... side of a ques- tion , the extraordinary superiority of his famous Diction- ary chiefly consists . Hence , too , his strength and his weakness ; for as no man ever equalled him for marshal- ling opposing arguments in battle - array , so ...
... side of a ques- tion , the extraordinary superiority of his famous Diction- ary chiefly consists . Hence , too , his strength and his weakness ; for as no man ever equalled him for marshal- ling opposing arguments in battle - array , so ...
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... sides , and forbidding them to write against each other . It would be an absolute waste of paper to detail more of this curious controversy between men so unequally gifted . Suffice it to observe , that Jurieu brought upon himself ...
... sides , and forbidding them to write against each other . It would be an absolute waste of paper to detail more of this curious controversy between men so unequally gifted . Suffice it to observe , that Jurieu brought upon himself ...
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... side , his heir . On this occasion , one of those disgraceful exhibitions of selfish baseness took place , on the part of the heirs - at - law , which are so frequently favoured by the imperfection , and — as in the present case - the ...
... side , his heir . On this occasion , one of those disgraceful exhibitions of selfish baseness took place , on the part of the heirs - at - law , which are so frequently favoured by the imperfection , and — as in the present case - the ...
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... sides , is also worthy of the highest applause ; and the difficulty of discovering in his Dictionary under what banners of country , sect , or party , he ranges himself , may be regarded as a proof of his peculiar fitness for ...
... sides , is also worthy of the highest applause ; and the difficulty of discovering in his Dictionary under what banners of country , sect , or party , he ranges himself , may be regarded as a proof of his peculiar fitness for ...
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