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Pagina ix
The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction . The Whigs applauded every line of the play in which Liberty was mentioned , as a fatire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap , to fhew that the fatire was unfelt .
The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction . The Whigs applauded every line of the play in which Liberty was mentioned , as a fatire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap , to fhew that the fatire was unfelt .
Pagina xix
He has fometimes a ftriking line , or a fhining paragraph , but in the whole he is warm rather than fervid , and fhews more dextirity than ftrength . He was however one of our earliest examples of correctness . The prefent generation is ...
He has fometimes a ftriking line , or a fhining paragraph , but in the whole he is warm rather than fervid , and fhews more dextirity than ftrength . He was however one of our earliest examples of correctness . The prefent generation is ...
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 .
Pagina 2
... during the fpace of eight years , excepting in the publick exercifes of the college , I fcarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and , indeed , do not remember that I ever fpoke three fentences together in my whole life .
... during the fpace of eight years , excepting in the publick exercifes of the college , I fcarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and , indeed , do not remember that I ever fpoke three fentences together in my whole life .
Pagina 11
The thoughts of the day gave my mind employment for the whole night , fo that I fell infenfibly into a kind of methodical dream , which difpofed all my contemplations into ...
The thoughts of the day gave my mind employment for the whole night , fo that I fell infenfibly into a kind of methodical dream , which difpofed all my contemplations into ...
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