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From a comparison of all these with each other ; Mr Hawkef- worth has compiled that life of the Doctor which is pre- fixed to his late edition of his works in 1755. As this is the most accurate and best digested account we have feen ...
From a comparison of all these with each other ; Mr Hawkef- worth has compiled that life of the Doctor which is pre- fixed to his late edition of his works in 1755. As this is the most accurate and best digested account we have feen ...
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Of all the brothers of Mrs Swift's hufband , Tho- mas excepted , Godwin only had fons ; and by these fons fhe was fubsisted in her old age , as she had been be- fore by their father and their uncles , with fuch libera- lity , that fhe ...
Of all the brothers of Mrs Swift's hufband , Tho- mas excepted , Godwin only had fons ; and by these fons fhe was fubsisted in her old age , as she had been be- fore by their father and their uncles , with fuch libera- lity , that fhe ...
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He commenced these studies at the university in Dublin , where he continued them three years , till 1688 ; and during this time he also drew the first sketch of his Tale of a Tub . ‡ . VOL . I. b IN * He held logic and metaphyfics in ...
He commenced these studies at the university in Dublin , where he continued them three years , till 1688 ; and during this time he also drew the first sketch of his Tale of a Tub . ‡ . VOL . I. b IN * He held logic and metaphyfics in ...
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But these words are not to be found in that copy of the teftimonium which is entered in the congre- gation - book at Oxford ; and not to have inferted them there , when they were thought a compliment , would have been an affront .
But these words are not to be found in that copy of the teftimonium which is entered in the congre- gation - book at Oxford ; and not to have inferted them there , when they were thought a compliment , would have been an affront .
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I But the contrary is inconteftably true ; for these are not quite two months between the date of his teftimo- nium , and his taking his Mafter's degree . Befides , in the letter to his uncle juft mentioned , he fays , " I am " afhamed ...
I But the contrary is inconteftably true ; for these are not quite two months between the date of his teftimo- nium , and his taking his Mafter's degree . Befides , in the letter to his uncle juft mentioned , he fays , " I am " afhamed ...
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