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... seem valuable or pleafing , I fhall offer my humble Nezr to your fociety with as much respectful zeal as to the greatest potentate on earth . any THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE , DELIVERED 24 FEBRUARY , 1785 THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE . 7.
... seem valuable or pleafing , I fhall offer my humble Nezr to your fociety with as much respectful zeal as to the greatest potentate on earth . any THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE , DELIVERED 24 FEBRUARY , 1785 THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE . 7.
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... seems calculated to promote , by bringing to light many useful and interesting tracts , which , being too fhort for feparate publication , might lie many years concealed , or , perhaps , irrecoverably perish : my wishes are accom ...
... seems calculated to promote , by bringing to light many useful and interesting tracts , which , being too fhort for feparate publication , might lie many years concealed , or , perhaps , irrecoverably perish : my wishes are accom ...
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... seems perfectly in the right , when he represents Europe as a fovereign Princefs , and Afia as her Handmaid : but , if the mistress be tranfcendently majestick , it cannot be denied that the attendant has many beauties , and fome ...
... seems perfectly in the right , when he represents Europe as a fovereign Princefs , and Afia as her Handmaid : but , if the mistress be tranfcendently majestick , it cannot be denied that the attendant has many beauties , and fome ...
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... seems less calculated to give com- plete fatisfaction in historical disquisitions , where every postulatum will perhaps be refused , and every definition controverted : this may seem a flight objection , but the subject is in itself fo ...
... seems less calculated to give com- plete fatisfaction in historical disquisitions , where every postulatum will perhaps be refused , and every definition controverted : this may seem a flight objection , but the subject is in itself fo ...
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... seem to poffefs only four general media of fatisfying our curiofity concerning it ; namely , first , their Languages and Letters ; fecondly , their Philofophy and Religion ; thirdly , the actual remains of their old Sculpture and ...
... seem to poffefs only four general media of fatisfying our curiofity concerning it ; namely , first , their Languages and Letters ; fecondly , their Philofophy and Religion ; thirdly , the actual remains of their old Sculpture and ...
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