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... both divine and human , had “ they received his documents with the " fame acuteness of wit and apprehen“ fion , the fame industry , alacrity , and " thirst after knowledge , as the instrucs6 tor was indued with , what prodigies “ of ...
... both divine and human , had “ they received his documents with the " fame acuteness of wit and apprehen“ fion , the fame industry , alacrity , and " thirst after knowledge , as the instrucs6 tor was indued with , what prodigies “ of ...
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In another place the Doctor says * , “ 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 small history of poetry , written ...
In another place the Doctor says * , “ 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 small history of poetry , written ...
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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 still more genuine products of Milton's scholastic inftitution than Dr. Johnson ever heard ...
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 still more genuine products of Milton's scholastic inftitution than Dr. Johnson ever heard ...
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having my minde for the present halfe . diverted in the persuance of some other assertions , the knowledge and the use of which , eannot but be a great furtherance both to the enlargement of truth and honest living , with much more ...
having my minde for the present halfe . diverted in the persuance of some other assertions , the knowledge and the use of which , eannot but be a great furtherance both to the enlargement of truth and honest living , with much more ...
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... and are as it were the burnishing of many studious and contemplative yeers altogether spent in the search of religious and civil knowledge ; and such as pleas'd you so well in the relating , I here give you them to dispose of .
... and are as it were the burnishing of many studious and contemplative yeers altogether spent in the search of religious and civil knowledge ; and such as pleas'd you so well in the relating , I here give you them to dispose of .
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton: To which are Added Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Published | 1780 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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