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... elegant mural Monument has been erected in the Parish Church of St. Clement at Sandwich , by his family , with the following Inscription : " Juxta sepultus est GULIELMUS Boys , Armiger , S. A. et L. S. Socius ; ab antiquâ et clarâ ...
... elegant mural Monument has been erected in the Parish Church of St. Clement at Sandwich , by his family , with the following Inscription : " Juxta sepultus est GULIELMUS Boys , Armiger , S. A. et L. S. Socius ; ab antiquâ et clarâ ...
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... elegant quarto volume . See Dr. Warton's ideas , in 1784 , on this projected publica- tion ; vol . VI . p . 172 . Afterwards Dr. Hoadly - Ashe ; of whom hereafter . " In this age , when every effort is made to reduce the sci- ences to ...
... elegant quarto volume . See Dr. Warton's ideas , in 1784 , on this projected publica- tion ; vol . VI . p . 172 . Afterwards Dr. Hoadly - Ashe ; of whom hereafter . " In this age , when every effort is made to reduce the sci- ences to ...
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... elegant , describes almost in the words of Welsted . - The Gentleman employed upon the great Oxford Dictionary of our language will think it necessary , we suppose , to explain many words in this curious Poem , which half a century has ...
... elegant , describes almost in the words of Welsted . - The Gentleman employed upon the great Oxford Dictionary of our language will think it necessary , we suppose , to explain many words in this curious Poem , which half a century has ...
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... elegant and gentlemanly reserve , which might keep rudeness or impertinence at a distance , but which marked the true gentleman , and evinced a proper self - esteem , and a laudable consciousness of that rank , which his birth and ...
... elegant and gentlemanly reserve , which might keep rudeness or impertinence at a distance , but which marked the true gentleman , and evinced a proper self - esteem , and a laudable consciousness of that rank , which his birth and ...
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... . p . 547 . " In the crowd of Novels which swarm in this country from a thousand Circulating Libraries , and which too frequently tend from the elegant pen of my excellent Friend Wil- liam 5.0 [ 1789 . LITERARY ANECDOTES.
... . p . 547 . " In the crowd of Novels which swarm in this country from a thousand Circulating Libraries , and which too frequently tend from the elegant pen of my excellent Friend Wil- liam 5.0 [ 1789 . LITERARY ANECDOTES.
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Page 741 - Watch ye therefore : for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
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Page 240 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.
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Page 340 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep.
Page 400 - Nature, which I was at that time composing, this argument immediately occurred to me, and I thought it very much gravelled my companion ; but at last he observed to me, that it was impossible for that argument to have any solidity, because it operated equally against the Gospel as the Catholic miracles ; — which observation I thought proper to admit as a sufficient answer.
Page 516 - But these sallies of religious frenzy must not extinguish the praise which is due to Mr. William Law as a wit and a scholar. His argument on topics of less absurdity is specious and acute, his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear ; and, had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthusiasm, he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times.
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