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... present to genius and imagination . If our ESSAYISTS have excelled in humour , they owe their materials and their opportunities to circumstances that are not known in other countries - to the freedom of our constitution- to the vast ...
... present to genius and imagination . If our ESSAYISTS have excelled in humour , they owe their materials and their opportunities to circumstances that are not known in other countries - to the freedom of our constitution- to the vast ...
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... present him with such opportunities of exposing improprieties and wrong notions to ridicule , as no systematic study or philosophical contemplation could suggest . When the ESSAYISTS , whose works compose these volumes , began to write ...
... present him with such opportunities of exposing improprieties and wrong notions to ridicule , as no systematic study or philosophical contemplation could suggest . When the ESSAYISTS , whose works compose these volumes , began to write ...
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... presents another series of characters and remarks , of great importance . Its nature and properties are therefore ... present to our readers the best - authenticated account we can obtain of one who has bequeathed to posterity so ...
... presents another series of characters and remarks , of great importance . Its nature and properties are therefore ... present to our readers the best - authenticated account we can obtain of one who has bequeathed to posterity so ...
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... present- ing an address . The more substantial reward of 5001. was also given him by Sir Robert Walpole for special services . Thus encou- raged , his fertile pen produced a variety of political tracts , of which it may be said that ...
... present- ing an address . The more substantial reward of 5001. was also given him by Sir Robert Walpole for special services . Thus encou- raged , his fertile pen produced a variety of political tracts , of which it may be said that ...
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... , or the beauty and utility of virtue , can be sup- posed to produce much effect . Under these circumstances it should be our endeavour not to present the solemn disquisition or scholastic tome , but BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . XXXV.
... , or the beauty and utility of virtue , can be sup- posed to produce much effect . Under these circumstances it should be our endeavour not to present the solemn disquisition or scholastic tome , but BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . XXXV.
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