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... literary and critical frictures ; and exhibit well drawn and appropriate characters of their respective fubjects . They are not written under the uni- form influence of any particular theological or political bias .--- New Annual ...
... literary and critical frictures ; and exhibit well drawn and appropriate characters of their respective fubjects . They are not written under the uni- form influence of any particular theological or political bias .--- New Annual ...
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... literary men an universal fondness for the exhibitions of the stage , in which Dr. Paley very largely participated , and the vicinity of London to Greenwich enabled him frequently to indulge it . Whenever his engagements permitted him ...
... literary men an universal fondness for the exhibitions of the stage , in which Dr. Paley very largely participated , and the vicinity of London to Greenwich enabled him frequently to indulge it . Whenever his engagements permitted him ...
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... literary men unbending themselves . Dr. Paley was elected a mem- ber immediately after he became a fellow of Christ's College , and a very great intimacy always subsisted H4 between between him and Waring and Jebb , the two moft ...
... literary men unbending themselves . Dr. Paley was elected a mem- ber immediately after he became a fellow of Christ's College , and a very great intimacy always subsisted H4 between between him and Waring and Jebb , the two moft ...
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... literary curiosity , not for the of moral instruction . purposes every The Germans , who have laboured so much in branch of literature , have in this exerted more than their usual industry . The libraries of the German universities are ...
... literary curiosity , not for the of moral instruction . purposes every The Germans , who have laboured so much in branch of literature , have in this exerted more than their usual industry . The libraries of the German universities are ...
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... business of the biographer of Dr. Paley to answer all the arguments which have been adduced by all the opposers of his philosophy . But as the I 3 most most important part of the history of a literary man ARCHDEACON PALEY . 117.
... business of the biographer of Dr. Paley to answer all the arguments which have been adduced by all the opposers of his philosophy . But as the I 3 most most important part of the history of a literary man ARCHDEACON PALEY . 117.
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Страница 316 - I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study, at every interval of leisure. These intervals were not very frequent ; and when the use I made of them was found out, they were rendered still less so. I could not guess the motives for this at first ; but at length I discovered that my master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired.
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