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... labour and anxious attention with which I have col- lected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt ...
... labour and anxious attention with which I have col- lected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt ...
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... labour , I do not wish to conceal but whatever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable re- ception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my ...
... labour , I do not wish to conceal but whatever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable re- ception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my ...
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... labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , Julius Cæsar , of whom Bacon observes , that " in his book of apophthegms which he collected , we see ...
... labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , Julius Cæsar , of whom Bacon observes , that " in his book of apophthegms which he collected , we see ...
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... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools : " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ...
... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools : " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ...
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... , without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end . He had , from the irritability of his constitution , at all times , an im- patience and hurry when he either read or wrote . ÆTAT . 20. ] 39 DR . JOHNSON .
... , without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end . He had , from the irritability of his constitution , at all times , an im- patience and hurry when he either read or wrote . ÆTAT . 20. ] 39 DR . JOHNSON .
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