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Pagina x
He wrote , as different exigences required ( in 1707 ) , The Prefent State of the War , the Whig Examiner , and the Trial of Count Tariff . Not long afterwards an attempt was made to revive the Spectator ; but either the turbulence of ...
He wrote , as different exigences required ( in 1707 ) , The Prefent State of the War , the Whig Examiner , and the Trial of Count Tariff . Not long afterwards an attempt was made to revive the Spectator ; but either the turbulence of ...
Pagina xix
The prefent generation is fcarcely willing to allow him the name of a critic ; his criticism is condemned as tentative or experimental , rather than scientific ; and he is confidered as deciding by taste rather than by principles .
The prefent generation is fcarcely willing to allow him the name of a critic ; his criticism is condemned as tentative or experimental , rather than scientific ; and he is confidered as deciding by taste rather than by principles .
Pagina xxiv
Do what You will , the prefent age will be talking of your vir tues , though pofterity alone will do them juftice , Other men pafs through oppofitions and contending interefts in the ways of ambition ; but your great abilities have been ...
Do what You will , the prefent age will be talking of your vir tues , though pofterity alone will do them juftice , Other men pafs through oppofitions and contending interefts in the ways of ambition ; but your great abilities have been ...
Pagina 1
... William the Conqueror's time that it is at prefent , and has been deliyered down from father to fon whole and entire , without the lofs or acquifition of a fingle field or meadow , C 2 during during the fpace of fix hundred years .
... William the Conqueror's time that it is at prefent , and has been deliyered down from father to fon whole and entire , without the lofs or acquifition of a fingle field or meadow , C 2 during during the fpace of fix hundred years .
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His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very delicate obferver of what occurs to him in the prefent world .
His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very delicate obferver of what occurs to him in the prefent world .
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