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The Tale of a Tub , the Battle of the Books , and the Fragment were first publifbed together in 1704 , and the apology , aud the notes from Wotton were added in 1710 ; this edition the Dean revised a fhort time before his understanding ...
The Tale of a Tub , the Battle of the Books , and the Fragment were first publifbed together in 1704 , and the apology , aud the notes from Wotton were added in 1710 ; this edition the Dean revised a fhort time before his understanding ...
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With the Author's Apology ; And Explanatory Notes , by W. Wotton , B. D. and others . LONDON : Printed for CHARLES BATHURST , in Fleet - Street . MDCCLXVIII . APOLOGY . IF good and ill nature equally operated upon TALE OF A TU B. A ...
With the Author's Apology ; And Explanatory Notes , by W. Wotton , B. D. and others . LONDON : Printed for CHARLES BATHURST , in Fleet - Street . MDCCLXVIII . APOLOGY . IF good and ill nature equally operated upon TALE OF A TU B. A ...
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... the oldest bookfellers in trade remember nothing of it . f Wotton's defence of his reflections upon ancient and modern learning : from the an notation are selected the notes figned W. Wotten ; thus Wotton appears bufied to ...
... the oldest bookfellers in trade remember nothing of it . f Wotton's defence of his reflections upon ancient and modern learning : from the an notation are selected the notes figned W. Wotten ; thus Wotton appears bufied to ...
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W. Wotton . It is the ufual ftyle of decried writers to appeal to Pofterity , who is here reprefented as a prince in his nonage , and Time as his governor ; and the author begins in a way very frequent with.him , by perfonating other ...
W. Wotton . It is the ufual ftyle of decried writers to appeal to Pofterity , who is here reprefented as a prince in his nonage , and Time as his governor ; and the author begins in a way very frequent with.him , by perfonating other ...
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Farther I avow to your highness , that with these eyes I have beheld the perfon of William Wotton , B. D. who has written a good fizeable volume against a friend of your governor ' ( from whom alas he muft therefore look for little ...
Farther I avow to your highness , that with these eyes I have beheld the perfon of William Wotton , B. D. who has written a good fizeable volume against a friend of your governor ' ( from whom alas he muft therefore look for little ...
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