Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of His Learned Friends; an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During the Last Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists; with a Very Copious Index, Volume 5author, 1812 |
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... hope of a literary education , to seek some other means of gaining a livelihood . He was first placed with a Collector of the Excise . He used to recount with some pleasure a journey or two which he rode with him as his clerk , and ...
... hope of a literary education , to seek some other means of gaining a livelihood . He was first placed with a Collector of the Excise . He used to recount with some pleasure a journey or two which he rode with him as his clerk , and ...
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... hope to rival Johnson's performances , every youth , who from his birth or fortune expects to sit in Parlia- ment , ought to aim , by studious perusal , at John- son's perfection in oratory and reasoning . those Debates may be usefully ...
... hope to rival Johnson's performances , every youth , who from his birth or fortune expects to sit in Parlia- ment , ought to aim , by studious perusal , at John- son's perfection in oratory and reasoning . those Debates may be usefully ...
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... hope , if you join in it , will be of advantage to both of us . " The History of the Council of Trent having been lately translated into French , and published with large notes by Dr. Le Courayer , the reputation of that book is so much ...
... hope , if you join in it , will be of advantage to both of us . " The History of the Council of Trent having been lately translated into French , and published with large notes by Dr. Le Courayer , the reputation of that book is so much ...
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... hope for on account of his abilities , he has likewise another claim to your regard , as he lies at present under very disadvantageous circumstances of fortune . I beg , therefore , that you will favour me with a let- ter to - morrow ...
... hope for on account of his abilities , he has likewise another claim to your regard , as he lies at present under very disadvantageous circumstances of fortune . I beg , therefore , that you will favour me with a let- ter to - morrow ...
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... hope , are now at an end ; and if you find the progress hereafter not such as you have a right to expect , you can easily stimulate a negligent translator , " If any or all of these have contributed to your discontent , I will endeavour ...
... hope , are now at an end ; and if you find the progress hereafter not such as you have a right to expect , you can easily stimulate a negligent translator , " If any or all of these have contributed to your discontent , I will endeavour ...
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Page 291 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 553 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified 4.
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Page 555 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 641 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity.
Page 553 - I have just received from Mr. R. two more of your Letters. It is in the greatest hurry imaginable that I write this; but I cannot help thanking you in particular for your third Letter, which is so extremely clear, short, and full, that I think Mr. Crousaz ought never to have another answer, and deserved not so good a one.