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... fpecies of wild beafts ; and Gratian neglected the duties , and even the dignity , of his rank , to confume whole days in the vain display of his dexterity and boldness in the chace . The pride and wish of the Roman emperor to excel in ...
... fpecies of wild beafts ; and Gratian neglected the duties , and even the dignity , of his rank , to confume whole days in the vain display of his dexterity and boldness in the chace . The pride and wish of the Roman emperor to excel in ...
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... fpecies of Poetry , invented by himself . A few partial friends have afferted , that the prefent performance has fome degree of fimilar merit ; but as I apprehend all the novelty it poffeffes , may rather require an apology , than ...
... fpecies of Poetry , invented by himself . A few partial friends have afferted , that the prefent performance has fome degree of fimilar merit ; but as I apprehend all the novelty it poffeffes , may rather require an apology , than ...
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... fpecies of Poetry , and to render it by its object , though not in its execution , more noble than the most beautiful and refined Satire can be . We have feen it carried to inimitable perfection , in the most delicate raillery on Female ...
... fpecies of Poetry , and to render it by its object , though not in its execution , more noble than the most beautiful and refined Satire can be . We have feen it carried to inimitable perfection , in the most delicate raillery on Female ...
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... fpecies of difen- genuity for which we have no precife word , and can only exprefs it by a periphrafis ; for it is compounded of feveral qualities which carry with them both impofition and infult . The learned Dr. Delany had obferved ...
... fpecies of difen- genuity for which we have no precife word , and can only exprefs it by a periphrafis ; for it is compounded of feveral qualities which carry with them both impofition and infult . The learned Dr. Delany had obferved ...
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... fpecies of charity which , is vulgarly faid , to begin at home , he makes no fcruple of attacking them all with indifcriminate fury ; and confiders them univerfally as fo many Dagons fet up in op- pofition to Jehovah , which every good ...
... fpecies of charity which , is vulgarly faid , to begin at home , he makes no fcruple of attacking them all with indifcriminate fury ; and confiders them univerfally as fo many Dagons fet up in op- pofition to Jehovah , which every good ...
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