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Page v
... advantage , he prc jected the scheme of an academy for education . Gilbert Walmsley , at that time Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Bishop of Litchfield , Such is the account of the Nile and its inun- was distinguished by ...
... advantage , he prc jected the scheme of an academy for education . Gilbert Walmsley , at that time Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Bishop of Litchfield , Such is the account of the Nile and its inun- was distinguished by ...
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... advantage accrued to the author of a poem , written with the ele- gance and energy of Pope . Johnson , in Au- gust 1738 , went , with all the fame of his poetry , to offer himself a candidate for the mastership of the school at Appleby ...
... advantage accrued to the author of a poem , written with the ele- gance and energy of Pope . Johnson , in Au- gust 1738 , went , with all the fame of his poetry , to offer himself a candidate for the mastership of the school at Appleby ...
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... advantage to him , who wanted to make a right use of his time , and even then beheld with self - reproach the waste occasioned by dissipa- tion . His abstinence from wine and strong li- quors began soon after the departure of Savage ...
... advantage to him , who wanted to make a right use of his time , and even then beheld with self - reproach the waste occasioned by dissipa- tion . His abstinence from wine and strong li- quors began soon after the departure of Savage ...
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... advantage to the The character of Thomas Warton was mark - arts till 1791 , and then resigned it . He was ed by some of those peculiarities which common- also appointed principal painter to the king , and ly fix upon a man the ...
... advantage to the The character of Thomas Warton was mark - arts till 1791 , and then resigned it . He was ed by some of those peculiarities which common- also appointed principal painter to the king , and ly fix upon a man the ...
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... advantage , being often impetuous and over - bearing . The desire of shining in conversa- tion was in him indeed a predominant passion ; and if it must be attributed to vanity , let it at the same time be recollected , that it produced ...
... advantage , being often impetuous and over - bearing . The desire of shining in conversa- tion was in him indeed a predominant passion ; and if it must be attributed to vanity , let it at the same time be recollected , that it produced ...
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