Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... followed every where as my fancy led me , and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields , just as they fall in his way ; and these five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life . - The same . In ...
... followed every where as my fancy led me , and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields , just as they fall in his way ; and these five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life . - The same . In ...
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... followed it , though not without some regret . - The same . • - How very strange and inconclusive does the reasoning of Tully and Plato often appear to us , and particularly that of the latter in his Phædo . Is there not some- thing ...
... followed it , though not without some regret . - The same . • - How very strange and inconclusive does the reasoning of Tully and Plato often appear to us , and particularly that of the latter in his Phædo . Is there not some- thing ...
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... followed any thing that I could not follow with pleasure . - The same . I had learned very early to read , and delighted extremely in it ; and taught my- self to write very early too , by copying from printed books * ; with which I used ...
... followed any thing that I could not follow with pleasure . - The same . I had learned very early to read , and delighted extremely in it ; and taught my- self to write very early too , by copying from printed books * ; with which I used ...
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... followed that ( the significance of the numbers , and the adapting them to the sense ) much more even than Dryden , and much oftener than any one minds it ; par- ticularly in the translation of Homer , when it was not necessary to do so ...
... followed that ( the significance of the numbers , and the adapting them to the sense ) much more even than Dryden , and much oftener than any one minds it ; par- ticularly in the translation of Homer , when it was not necessary to do so ...
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... Works , that he had followed the advice I * See a more particular and somewhat different account of this transaction in Dennis's Letters , 8vo . 1721 , p . 214.-M. had so often given him , and had gone so OF MEN AND BOOKS . 123.
... Works , that he had followed the advice I * See a more particular and somewhat different account of this transaction in Dennis's Letters , 8vo . 1721 , p . 214.-M. had so often given him , and had gone so OF MEN AND BOOKS . 123.
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