A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton, 1855 |
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... learned profession ; and the father having acceded to the proposal , young King entered the Inner Temple , and applied himself vigorously to the study of law . His first publication , however , was of a nature somewhat remote from his ...
... learned profession ; and the father having acceded to the proposal , young King entered the Inner Temple , and applied himself vigorously to the study of law . His first publication , however , was of a nature somewhat remote from his ...
Page 88
... learned friends , and to finish his ' Dialogues of the Dead . ' In the month of July , 1773 , this accomplished nobleman was suddenly seized with an inflammation in his bowels , which in a few days deprived the world of one of its most ...
... learned friends , and to finish his ' Dialogues of the Dead . ' In the month of July , 1773 , this accomplished nobleman was suddenly seized with an inflammation in his bowels , which in a few days deprived the world of one of its most ...
Page 99
... learned were under to confute them . Nay , at length he wrote several pamphlets to prove that following the literal sense of the Old Testament was no bet- ter than antichristianism , though , in the meantime , he sometimes in- sinuated ...
... learned were under to confute them . Nay , at length he wrote several pamphlets to prove that following the literal sense of the Old Testament was no bet- ter than antichristianism , though , in the meantime , he sometimes in- sinuated ...
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... learned man , and perhaps was to a certain extent sincere in his notions ; but there appears to have been a great want of judgment as well as prudence about him , -to such an extent even as to afford some foundation for the doubts which ...
... learned man , and perhaps was to a certain extent sincere in his notions ; but there appears to have been a great want of judgment as well as prudence about him , -to such an extent even as to afford some foundation for the doubts which ...
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... learned biographer , " the foundation of Middleton's hostility to Waterland was laid at this , or at an earlier period , is not certain ; nor whether it had its rise in political rather than in literary or personal jealousy . " There is ...
... learned biographer , " the foundation of Middleton's hostility to Waterland was laid at this , or at an earlier period , is not certain ; nor whether it had its rise in political rather than in literary or personal jealousy . " There is ...
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