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Ancient Christianity Exemplified: In the Private, Domestic, Social, and ... - Page 58
by Lyman Coleman - 1852 - 645 pages
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instiuction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children, he condescended to lay aside trie scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through...
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The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting ..., Volume 1

Walter Wilson - 1808 - 584 pages
...branches of literature, to converse with the lisping infant. " For children (says Dr. Johnson) lie condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...the third part of his annual revenue,, though the whole was not a hundred a year; and for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Watts, A. Philips ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through...
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Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...third* part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children, he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction* adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year; and for children, he condescended to lay aside Ihe scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little p'oems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...the third part of his annual revenue, though the whole was not a hundred a year ; and for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, .to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through...
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A Sketch of My Friend's Family: Intended to Suggest Some Practical Hints on ...

Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - 1812 - 648 pages
...it be remembered too, that for children, and young •children, Dr. Watts, as Johnson says of him, " condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher,...wit, to write little poems of devotion, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning...
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