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... both divine and human , had they received his documents with the " fame acutenefs of wit and apprehen" fion , the fame induftry , alacrity , and " thirft after knowledge , as the inftruc" tor was indued with , what prodigies " of ...
... both divine and human , had they received his documents with the " fame acutenefs of wit and apprehen" fion , the fame induftry , alacrity , and " thirft after knowledge , as the inftruc" tor was indued with , what prodigies " of ...
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... place the Doctor fays * , " From this wonder - working academy I " do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent for knowledge ; " its only genuine product , I believe , is " a fmall hiftory of poetry , written in .
... place the Doctor fays * , " From this wonder - working academy I " do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent for knowledge ; " its only genuine product , I believe , is " a fmall hiftory of poetry , written in .
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There may have been men and things of which Dr. Johnson hath no knowledge . Wood fays , both Milton's nephews were writers ; and there may be ftill more genuine products of Milton's fcholaftic inftitution than Dr. Johnfon ever heard of ...
There may have been men and things of which Dr. Johnson hath no knowledge . Wood fays , both Milton's nephews were writers ; and there may be ftill more genuine products of Milton's fcholaftic inftitution than Dr. Johnfon ever heard of ...
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having my minde for the present halfe diverted in the perfuance of some other affertions , the knowledge and the ufe of which , cannot but be a great furtherance both to the enlargement of truth and honeft living , with much more peace ...
having my minde for the present halfe diverted in the perfuance of some other affertions , the knowledge and the ufe of which , cannot but be a great furtherance both to the enlargement of truth and honeft living , with much more peace ...
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But if you can accept of thefe few obfervations which have flowr'd off , and are as it were the burnishing of many ftudious and contemplative yeers altogether spent in the fearch of religious and civil knowledge , and fuch as pleas'd ...
But if you can accept of thefe few obfervations which have flowr'd off , and are as it were the burnishing of many ftudious and contemplative yeers altogether spent in the fearch of religious and civil knowledge , and fuch as pleas'd ...
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica Issue 56 of British culture series, Group IV Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Publisher | Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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