The Works of Alexander Pope: LettersA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... Reader , have feen a certain vener- able Person who frequented the outfide of the Pa- lace of St. James's , and who , by the Gravity of his Deportment and Habit , was generally taken for a decay'd Gentleman of Spain . His ftature was ...
... Reader , have feen a certain vener- able Person who frequented the outfide of the Pa- lace of St. James's , and who , by the Gravity of his Deportment and Habit , was generally taken for a decay'd Gentleman of Spain . His ftature was ...
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... merits to mankind ; in which I dare promise the Reader , that , whenever he begins to think any one Chapter dull , the ftyle will be immediately changed in the next . MEMOIRS O F MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . BOOK I. CHAP . 8 INTRODUCTION .
... merits to mankind ; in which I dare promise the Reader , that , whenever he begins to think any one Chapter dull , the ftyle will be immediately changed in the next . MEMOIRS O F MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . BOOK I. CHAP . 8 INTRODUCTION .
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... Reader any account of his wonder- ful progress , fince it is already known to the learned world by his Treatife on this fubject : I mean the admirable Difcourfe П Babes , which he wrote at this time , but concealed from his Father ...
... Reader any account of his wonder- ful progress , fince it is already known to the learned world by his Treatife on this fubject : I mean the admirable Difcourfe П Babes , which he wrote at this time , but concealed from his Father ...
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... Reader's patience already , I cannot help taking notice of one thing more extraordinary than any yet mentioned ; which was Crambe's Treatife of Syllogifms . He fupposed that a Philofopher's brain was like a great Foreft , where Ideas ...
... Reader's patience already , I cannot help taking notice of one thing more extraordinary than any yet mentioned ; which was Crambe's Treatife of Syllogifms . He fupposed that a Philofopher's brain was like a great Foreft , where Ideas ...
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