The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Том 3James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1791 |
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... learning were preserved , ufed the Roman language ; and as it was that in which Virgil had written , he was their fa vourite . This happened to both , that the Latin tongue being familiar , and the language in which Homer wrote , a ...
... learning were preserved , ufed the Roman language ; and as it was that in which Virgil had written , he was their fa vourite . This happened to both , that the Latin tongue being familiar , and the language in which Homer wrote , a ...
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... learning became a phænomenon ; and no- thing but occafional democratic ingraftments , could have preferved any femblance of life in a fapless and - withering trunk . To apply the fame principles to another body of men mentioned above ...
... learning became a phænomenon ; and no- thing but occafional democratic ingraftments , could have preferved any femblance of life in a fapless and - withering trunk . To apply the fame principles to another body of men mentioned above ...
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... learning is thus wounded , the interest of mankind is effentially promoted . Thefe interests are , in fact , oppofite ; for it is the object of the author to enhance the value of his produce , and that of the public , to procure it as ...
... learning is thus wounded , the interest of mankind is effentially promoted . Thefe interests are , in fact , oppofite ; for it is the object of the author to enhance the value of his produce , and that of the public , to procure it as ...
Сторінка 91
... learning , candour , and induftry . He had an original manner , and wished to think for himfelf : But to elegance , he was an entire stranger , and to that happy choice of cir- cumstances which forms an inftructive hiftorian ; he was ...
... learning , candour , and induftry . He had an original manner , and wished to think for himfelf : But to elegance , he was an entire stranger , and to that happy choice of cir- cumstances which forms an inftructive hiftorian ; he was ...
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... learning is frivolity , and fortitude at best but the frenzy of ignorance ; nor were a cock- fight and a card table , a masquerade and an horse race , to limit the amufements and ambition of a brave and proud nobility . The black Prince ...
... learning is frivolity , and fortitude at best but the frenzy of ignorance ; nor were a cock- fight and a card table , a masquerade and an horse race , to limit the amufements and ambition of a brave and proud nobility . The black Prince ...
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