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Now Mr. Warton tells us , that " the whip was $ 6 an inftrument of academical correc❝tion , not entirely laid afide in the old age of Dr. Bathurft ; but Bathurst furvived Milton thirty years , and the time of Milton's admiffion above ...
Now Mr. Warton tells us , that " the whip was $ 6 an inftrument of academical correc❝tion , not entirely laid afide in the old age of Dr. Bathurft ; but Bathurst furvived Milton thirty years , and the time of Milton's admiffion above ...
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Dr. Birch , who examined the quef" tion with great care , was inclined to " think them [ the Regicides ] the forg " ers . " .. Dr. Birch's examination , careful as the Doctor reprefents it , was blameably partial in not giving Toland's ...
Dr. Birch , who examined the quef" tion with great care , was inclined to " think them [ the Regicides ] the forg " ers . " .. Dr. Birch's examination , careful as the Doctor reprefents it , was blameably partial in not giving Toland's ...
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It is to be feared that's loyalty ❝ was founded on an idolatrous venera" tion of greatness , and an abject fondnefs for dependence ; in fycophantry , impatient of hunger and philofophy , * and in a meanness difdainful of no luI 4 ...
It is to be feared that's loyalty ❝ was founded on an idolatrous venera" tion of greatness , and an abject fondnefs for dependence ; in fycophantry , impatient of hunger and philofophy , * and in a meanness difdainful of no luI 4 ...
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We want inftances ; and here they are : " That his 46 own daughters might not break thè ranks , he fuffered them to be depreffed by a mean and pemurious educa tion , " The impudence of Belial would beabafhed at fo grofs a ...
We want inftances ; and here they are : " That his 46 own daughters might not break thè ranks , he fuffered them to be depreffed by a mean and pemurious educa tion , " The impudence of Belial would beabafhed at fo grofs a ...
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Authors in the pleafing contemplation of their own powers , and in the exer tion of them upon paper , may imagine ftrange things in their clofets concerning their efficiency when they come abroad . But here , alas ! all the propriety of ...
Authors in the pleafing contemplation of their own powers , and in the exer tion of them upon paper , may imagine ftrange things in their clofets concerning their efficiency when they come abroad . But here , alas ! all the propriety of ...
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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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